

It’s a powerful set of abilities that makes you wonder if Firaxis is trying to reward any fans who manage to get this far in the campaign. Psi Operatives can even keep themselves alive after taking fatal amounts of damage via the Sustain perk. Soulfire might be one of the best abilities in the game, delivering guaranteed damage (undiminished by armor) for just a single action point. We recommend training the Domination ability as soon as possible, to easily (albeit temporarily) increase your squad size during combat, and then placing a high priority on offensive abilities. From there, players have some say in the growth of their Psi Operatives. How To Train Psi OperativesĮvery Psi Operative can use the Insanity ability, which has a chance to panic or disorient an opponent. In fact, we’d recommend adding at least two Psi Operatives to your team as quickly as possible. The process usually takes a couple of weeks to complete, even with an engineer expediting the soldier’s training, but the wait is absolutely worth it. Once you’ve built a Psi Lab, which we’d recommend doing after you’ve spent a few hours with the campaign, adding a Psi Operative to your roster is as easy as sending a rookie soldier to training. Unlike Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2 doesn’t ask players to test soldiers for the series’ own special version of Force sensitivity. XCOM 2 Photo: Photo: International Digital Times They can (more-or-less) revive themselves at higher levels.They can deal damage that ignores armor ratings.Truth be told, there’s a pretty lengthy list of reasons why players want Psi Operatives on their roster in XCOM 2. The psionic specialists are no longer considered a sub-class of their existing assignment, instead training exclusively as a Psi Operative from the time they’re a rookie, and XCOM 2 features more than twice as many learnable skills for your telepathic soldiers. The abilities and potential for Psi Operatives are much more diverse in XCOM 2 than what players encountered in Enemy Unknown. Fortunately, there’s a whole lot more reasons (starting with fun) to focus on training Psi Operatives in XCOM 2. Having read our beginners and advanced player’s guides, and mastering the early stages of the XCOM 2 campaign, it’s time to find out what XCOM 2 has in store for players with its final soldier class.
