Is it normal to spawn a pod of 3 Codex aliens

xcom-2

Playing XCOM2 on easy veteran difficulty and just spawned a pod of triple Codexes. I'm wondering if that's normal, or if my RNG is particularly helpful today.

Triple Codex pod

Best Answer

Yes, this is normal.

The longer you play the campaign, the stronger the groups of enemies you will face in random battles. Most enemies which you encounter in a story mission for the first time will then start to appear as a regular random encounter. This includes Codexes. You seem to already have a Ranger with the maximum rank and the best shotgun in the game, so you seem to be already playing for a while.

So if you start hitting your skill ceiling, you might want to focus on completing the story objectives and finish the game.