Notice what they're all carrying. :)

For those of you not familiar with the utility items in XCOM 2, that pink circle with the silhouetted head in it is the icon of an item called a Mindshield, which does just what it says on the tin: makes the soldier carrying it immune to psionic attacks that affect the target's mind, such as Insanity and Mind Control. These are basically the only things the Warlock does that aren't minion summons.

And the hilarious thing is that he doesn't know you have them, so he'll keep trying to panic, stun, disorient, or control your troopers all day. It didn't matter in this particular mission, because everything ran like such clockwork that he never had a chance to do even one single thing, but on a previous Retaliation Site mission where the squad encountered him, it was a source of endless amusement. Imagine a great big mean shit-talking dog who can't figure out what the tempered glass patio door is or why he can't get into the house. Yeah. Hours of fun. :)

Also, note that Yoshika and Lynne are wearing two of the Alien Hunters special armors, the RAGE suit (which is made from the corpse of the Berserker Queen, I shit you not) and the Icarus armor (made from the remains of the Archon King). The Icarus suit looks pretty good if you take the goofy helmet off it, which fortunately you can do. The RAGE suit, well, there's basically nothing you can do to prevent that from looking like a skinned gorilla—as you can see, changing the colors from the Berserker's Slim Goodbody default palette helps a little, but not much—but what I really object to about it is that it makes Yoshika look like she's got a package. I'm not down with that, and neither is Lynne.

(Also, you can't see them there because of Yoshika's stats box, but it has "bare feet" shoes, which is dorky in the extreme. Always makes me think of that fake radio ad in GTA Online. "Toe Shoes! They're shoes for toes—and twats!")

Still, it's effectively another WAR suit, with the added bonuses that it has a chance to make Berserkers panic on sight of it and adds a melee attack to the repertoire of whoever's wearing it. Which can be handy, if—as here—the character wearing it doesn't already have one.

As an aside about the Icarus armor, I miss having equipment that enables squaddies to properly fly, like you could get in the first game (and the '90s one, come to that). The Icarus suit simulates Iron Man-style jet boot jumping instead of its wearer climbing ladders and stuff, and it has what's basically a teleport power that's animated as flying up out of frame and then dropping back into it on the destination square, but it's not the same.

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