We believe these rulers are incredibly intelligent and are pursuing your soldiers across the globe. If you can’t take out a ruler quick enough, the alien will escape to fight another day.
They will show up at random in your campaign, once you’ve completed the new narrative mission, and each will have their own unique behavior and tactics, so don’t expect them to act like their subordinates. These new Rulers, including the Viper King, are quite formidable, Commander. Together with general bug fixes, balancing in the single player, performance optimisations and a rebalanced multiplayer experience for the base game, says the games developer who explains moreover on the official website :Īlien Hunters features a narrative-driven mission, new weapons and armor, a new “Hunter’s Lodge” update to the Avenger’s Armory, plus three new “Ruler” alien units to combat. The Alien Hunters DLC requires XCOM 2 to play as you might have thought and also brings with it a compatibility patch for XCOM 2, that will include authentication for Alien Hunters.
