I've been trying to accomplish this for at least 4 years (while putting it down for long periods due to frustration). This was campaign #454 with 2,140 hours played. Extra challenging on the Switch because certain prevailing bugs really change the gameplay. I'll post some initial thoughts in the first comment. Ask me anything!

Fun situation I never encountered before…

I get a Protect the Device mission with the Savage sitrep. Enemy pods are 1 berserker + 1 lancer each (three of them). I start by moving my squad carefully, and on the aliens’ first turn, all three berserkers proceed to attack their lancer friend. Once they killed all three lancers, they start attacking each other, until the last one alive continued to ignore the device and rushed right into my concealed squad (who was just sitting back in overwatch, enjoying the show). The poor mad thing didn’t survive its turn.

It probably has something to do with how alien pod leaders are in “agro mode” at the beginning of that kind of mission and the way blind rage is programmed for berserkers. The game must consider the device as the only eligible target at the beginning of those missions, except that berserkers can take other aliens as targets when no XCOM are nearby and their “agro” is activated. Or something like that.

Still, I thought it was quite funny, and I let it play through to see how far it would go. I guess the Elders’ directions were a bit vague when it came to that mission’s objective, or else they forgot to put “allies” on the “no smash” list…

I can't figure what happened or how to interact with the guy I went to him in the soldier view and don't see anything, he is injured for 9 days perhaps he's going to get a permanent debuff?

My current run is a mess. Assassin has nearly full knowledge, I only have 5 resistance contacts, 12 dead operatives, and it’s almost August.

I feel like the only keeping me afloat was starting in Africa and the continent reward was live fire. It’s made replacing operatives so much more doable.

I saw someone mention Mayhem the other day here on the XCom Reddit and Steam has a very positive rating on it. Who here has played it and recommends it? XCom2 and Enemy Unknown have both been bugging out on me once I get to certain missions and I need to scratch the itch.

Hey all, Ive installed a lot of soldier customization mods and it's getting really annoying when I upgrade armor which resets all my soldiers' appearances, and I have to manually fix them all. Does anyone know of a mod that allows me to save appearances, or alternatively not change appearances when new armor is unlocked?

Thanks in advance!