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I actually made a post wondering more or less the same things, but put not-so-well I guess (no responses, rip). I'm a total noob but I too find the Alien Hunters pretty bad (in the imbalanced/not worth it way) like you said, I was wondering if 1.3 in anyway made it easier with the general more comba...

So after learning more about how this works, I've now been intentionally farming RNFs at the end of each GOP. I'd say I easily get 10 RNF kills each mission before I have to bug out. I could easily see this going up later in the game when my soldiers get stronger. Conclusions: 1) Farming RNFs is ze...

And I also like the apples and oranges you just gave. I've worked on casino software and video games. Nothing but apples here. Again apples and oranges. As a coder of casino software you know that the software sets the machine to pay out after a certain amount of money has been made by the machine ...

So, let me start by saying that the changes in 1.3 look great , I was waiting a long time for this. Being the noobagel I am, I found even veteran/normal too hard, but I found recruit too easy. Maybe now I can have a grand old time. The biggest thing that always messed me up before were the rulers. T...

Well I'm glad other people feel the same, I thought I just needed to git gud. Some of these ideas are quite "exotic". Giving the soldier and binding viper more DODGE, rather than defense, may be a better move? Both sides will be trying to not hit the vitals of their guy, thus making grazes...

TheCiroth wrote:IF you use steam for managing LW, its already undone. Otherwise, just reinstall the mod.

Alright then thanks!

Hello so this is kind of a silly/dumb question. I made some ini edits before 1.2, which I would like to undo. What is the best way to do this? Is it already done the second I update LW2? I don't want to start a game and get far enough that I feel bad when I encounter I did not in fact change it back...

P.S. I tried to have snipers and scouts, absolutely doesn't work on this map because the high ground is almost nonexistant and is swarming with enemies. Viper King can see through concealment a half mile away, which doesn't help at all.

Welp, OP here after things went on a massive tangent. I have started a new game, rookie difficulty. Things are going well, almost liberated first region. Then I do an ambush and the Viper King shows up, total fucking squad wipe every time, no matter what. I'm thinking I might have to start again and...

Kind of off topic, but the entire Alien Hunters dlc is garbage with LW2. I'm playing on rookie even, doing very well. The instant Viper King shows up, total squad wipe. I have found the bolt caster and the frost bombs to be useless. Shadow keeper is okay, although the lack of laser and coil upgrades...

I was thinking of making a post about this. I'm on rookie (after 2 bad vet attempts), couple months in, all force levels 1. I haven't done a statue-demolish mission despite popping up, so not sure if that would make a difference. Kind of sucks not having the ambushes or supply raids, I can't even ma...

Am doing 1.1, only mod I am using is "show enemy health" (the mod that puts the numeric x/x under health bar, keeping everything else same). I have 2 saves available, as I ran into 2 issues on urban maps. In general they were different from vanilla city maps, as I wasn't able to drop down ...

Yea Materiel is a french term for "military hardware". Fits very nicely here.

Same way you have "anti materiel rifles", it's not "material" because it's not an anti-matter gun :p

Barely related, but I ended up starting a new game, but this time on easy mood because I suck. Hopefully things get more interesting because right now it is too easy. I'm sure actually going into supply raids fully loaded might still be a challenge, and now I may have too many long ranged stationary...

One neat thing I've taken note of, is that aside from the powers, their blank slate when it comes to regular perks means they don't have much of the power perks locked out by ability restrictions, so they can get very neat AWC combinations, so it's not entirely unusual to get some powerhouse combo....

On the chance that any mods are reading this, maybe a solution would be to have 3 "columns' like other skills. When training, first one would be a "low level" ability, 2nd a mid, and 3rd a high. Replaced by another (random?) level power if that "pool" is empty. This way you ...

Something that the game doesn't really tell you and that you won't discover until you've played (and likely lost) a few campaigns is that you need to do as many supply raids as possible. If you don't, then you will both not counter some Advent strength increases and you will fall too far behind in ...

The number of missions isn't really an issue since you can take them out of the tank and resume training when they return, what is an issue is the infiltration time that's basically lost time. I think with the way they now require normal levels to gain xp, the tank time could be reduced. It's proba...

Good call on using the search. I think I'm still a little sleep deprived with my newborn baby girl. Also glad you know that you can upgrade it. You get a massive penalty based on their rank, something like 12 days per rank the power is above the op. The Long story is that psiops are pretty garbage ...

Who used the "only take overwatch shots on %" PCS? If you are doing an OW, you should be using something like situational awareness of hyper-reactive pupils or something.

I have extremely limited experience, just barely got psi stuff going, but yea they sure feel underwhelming.

Glad I'm not the only one thinking they aren't worth the vast costs to reach. Maybe if enough people mention it something will be changed.

Something else that is being forgotten is incendiary grenades are expensive, very much in ewrly game. Compare to free.

1 incemdiary shuts down like 1 guy, vs. Stunning every other turn.

I would say they compliment each other nicely, and we should stop arguing about it

I have recently been seeing the power of support GLs and Stun gunners, but then what?

I stun/flash/etc., but then I need a way to kill them. Wouldn't that involve explosives to pop cover? Or just have sharps/rangers stack aim boosts and hope for best?

Well thanks guys! It will take some time to fully soak this in. I should note I didn't fail the mission due to save scums. I tried it at ~100% infil at normal density, it was unwinable even with multiple restarts to try different placements and openings. I reloaded before mission forces to start and...

So yea, I need some help. I am playing on Vet. I see people on here saying they don't even infiltrate, they just straight up run in with guns blazing. I get to 200% infilitration with an intel boost and still have a hard time. I don't think I'm a bad player, maybe it's just that my squad comp and eq...