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I don't have the slightest bit of difficulty in differentiating between the frag, smoke, and flashbang icons at a glance.

Nope, it doesn't. They always wear civvy clothes/tatters.

Oh, yeah, you may've blown up the ADVENT Officer from Operation Gatecrasher. Which would definitely limit your ability to research his corpse until you've done another materiel-recovery mission!

I have around 20 dark events active, is that how it's supposed to be or did I hit a bug? Those are Tactical Research Dark Events, they're permanent and meant to build up and make the aliens more competitive. The game's balanced around them occurring, although you can counter them like you can Dark ...

Gotta do the Trooper Autopsy first, too. Don't forget that part.

If Covering Fire negated cover bonuses on the target, that'd be enough, I think. Doubt it's possible, though, to make it like that.

Don't apologize. The wall of text is really informative/interesting and laden with good intentions. Thanks for making it! I'll be reading all of it (Specialist done right now, agreed wholeheartedly on all the points within!) over the next few mission load times.

Killzone either incorrectly states it uses Squad Sight or incorrectly doesn't use it. Right now, Killzone on a Sharpshooter is a waste because of that.

CUP is the best overwatch perk you can get that isn't Sentinel, Guardian, or Rapid Response. The only time, in my experience, where CUP is not worth taking for an Overwatcher, is when it bumps up against Danger Zone on a Gunner. Then it's a trade-off on suppression capacity versus damage and aim. CU...

In order to prevent the loss of PCSes, I've been giving them to soldiers in the barracks screen, then immediately going out and flying the Avenger someplace and scanning for roughly a day. It seems to have worked, considering I was losing them left and right before and have kept the first-installed ...

I really like the ideas for the Gauntlet an awful lot. Hopefully someone will create a mod for that functionality if it's never implemented in LW2 base! I agree with you on most of your class commentary, although I would like to say that, if you're so inclined, you should totally try out using SPAR...

Incredibly strange. Do you have any mods installed? Not that I can think of any off the top of my head that would cause something like this as it's kinda a new one.

Something I've not heard of happening before. Is he a Haven Liaison? Is he solo-infiltrating something and the squad disappeared?

I really like the ideas for the Gauntlet an awful lot. Hopefully someone will create a mod for that functionality if it's never implemented in LW2 base! I agree with you on most of your class commentary, although I would like to say that, if you're so inclined, you should totally try out using SPARK...

Console-added staff are weirdly able to be given a level denotation. I don't think it does anything for most facilities, but it increases their base research rate and efficiency at clearing debris.

Sadly, your conclusions are the same as my own and that of those who've come before us: Wet Work is simply not worth taking, at this point, mathematically. If it doubled kill experience, it'd be a decent use of 75 supplies early in the game, but as it is, it's just a trap.

Sorry, I was impolite. I know there's a setting for disabling the rank multiplier on respec times in the XComLW_Overhaul.ini file, line 171. It suggests that the formula is only based on base rank, non-officer stuff, non-AWC skills.

As someone who loves playing theorycraft with these things, Sprinter and Combat Fitness on slower soldiers or ones who need a boost in mobility, like Assaults and Grenadiers and Technicals or Shinobi, is just friggin' amazing. Serial on Gunners or Assaults. Flashbanger or Smoker with Rapid Deploymen...

I still find that pistols synergize the best with (DFA) Sharpshooters. The ability to take a second shot after a successful DfA kill is absolutely amazing, especially once you're past conventional pistols and can expect more than 1-2 damage a shot from your pistole.

I don't see the problem with them in 1.2 even. Rapid Deployment is fantastic, Sting Grenades are nearly overpowered, and the alternatives are, sadly, lacking. I tweaked Sapper's enviro-destruction upward a point in my game and it's still somewhat underwhelming. Combat Engineer being max depth in the...

The bigger question is why you post 50 threads with broken English on basic questions.

By the way, you can counter COINResearch, I do frequently. It's simply a matter of setting everyone in a region that can possibly house the mission to Intel the second you find out it's ongoing. Although I am cheating somewhat in having the Easier Dark Events mod that makes it so that they can't sp...

I've never encountered this, and I use a few map mods. Which mods do you use, because I can guarantee you that having no cover is a problem with a mod, not with LW2.

By the way, you can counter COINResearch, I do frequently. It's simply a matter of setting everyone in a region that can possibly house the mission to Intel the second you find out it's ongoing. Although I am cheating somewhat in having the Easier Dark Events mod that makes it so that they can't spa...

I've only done a dozen or so of these, but I've only recently had a problem with them on the latest one, where, upon entering the map, a pod activated. One of the ones XCOM is supposed to deal with, not the standard ADVENT one that is significantly weaker. And it activated on the datatap house. Only...