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Okay then, there shouldn't be a cheap way to cc elite aliens. I still think there should be more options to sorta effectively cc elite aliens if the game is to keep the little battle strategy it has left.

alien turn: sectoid controls a rookie
xcom turn: i flashbang the mind controlled rooke
alien turn: sectoid gets flashbanged
xcom turn: rookie is still disoriented
more xcom turns: rookie is still disoriented

SirensCry wrote: id rather recommend each one to make the adjustments they like for the game THEY like.

That's a two sided sword -"nerf it yourself"- :p; but I get the point.

I agree on the "stop using RNG to nerf". I am sure that absolutely every pro-nerf will be happy enough with a damage nerf. Not only the RNG nerf kind of completely ruins the point of flame grenades, but it also pushes the game even farther in a direction I am not liking: plain cover destro...

Sorry, no, I don't have those saves. Good to know the clock will be paused and resume when the progress is filled again.

But did you complete it after the doom countdown started?

Has anyone else noticed that grazed shots no longer proc shred? or is anyone else having that issue with 1.3?.

So, maybe I don't remember correctly, but in vanilla you could remove the avatar proyect completion countdown by completing any mission that removes avatar proyect progress points. Now I was playing on the edge, got down blacksite 5 days before avatar completion and.... it didn't stop. Is it suppose...

just the sentrys and mecs. Didn't know they could go on overwatch on yellow alert without being activated first. It's still weird all the pods in the map (except the one with the general) eventually were sitting next to the drone. It felt kinda cheesy to hit 25+ aliens with one rocket, but... I cons...

So I was messing around with my trojan hacker in a HQ assault, taking down drones from concealment. After a while enemy pods started gathering around the drone wreckage, standing still there without taking cover but entering overwatch. I am still concealed.

Well thanks for the feedback. My main issue was focusing on one region, using too much intel boost, and getting it liberated asap; but then had only one more region contacted and it's strength grew too fast. I honestly didn't know advent was actually moving troops world wide, kinda thought each regi...

So, how exacly deos bulwark work? is it supposed to always provide high cover to adjacent units no matter what?, are there any restrictions?, more often than not the cover icon doesn't appear, or it's somehow lost, and well you obviously get killed.

I guess you (OP) and I are doing the same mistake: focusing too much on one region while maybe we should play more with kiting advent: hit a region just a few times and then switch rebels to recruit and supply while advent activity is still low enough to prevent retaliations; and look for missions i...

Just that, was kinda shocked when a viper pulled one of my guys from behind a car, making the car immediately explode, killing the pulled guy and an assault that was hunkering next to it - _ -

I mean, even with 13 guys on intel, a scientist and the avenger scanner I never get to detect one with more than 3 days left. Or I am mising something.

I never do supply raids at less than 100% infiltration. On the other hand, yes I always focus on missions in one region at a time. Thanks for pointing out that spreading my missions will make advent spread it's strenght!. I will definitely give that a shot. About the rushing psy ops videos: I don't ...

Thanks ^^

Does trial by fire still get triggered if you evac before completing the mission?

Well, I had pretty much no problems on veteran on lw 1.1, but now at 1.3 I keep fucking up every ironman campaing. This is what so far gives me a solid start, but when may-june comes advent simply mops the floor with me: Start buying an engineer and a scientist. I know most prefer GTS but I kinda go...

When one of your soldiers gets mind controlled, are they supposed to lose cover defense? Or is it a perfect information bug? It seems to happen every time that when one of my soldiers gets mind controlled and it gets shot, perfect information displays hit and crit chances as if it was exposed, even ...

The infiltration % and the days/hours indicated in the mission preparation screen do not match.
I.E.: if it says the mission still has 5 days until it expires and you put a squad with 4days 22hs, you won't get 100% infiltration.
How many hs less than the expiration do you need for 100% infiltration?

There was a fountain nearby and I think he ran to it. Is that so? never knew such thing was implemented!.
Thanks :3

I was used to burning lasting one full alien turn, applying one last tick of damage on the second alien turn and fade out on that same turn. Do advent officers have some kind of fire resistance perk?. Today I used roust on one of them, got the burn applied, and on the next turn the advent officer go...

I am ok with the rocket scatter mechanics, I found them overpowered in vanilla and I liked that the nerf wasn't the old and dumb damage nerf. Maybe they are too nerfed, but still useful. Thing is: I also like to play on calculated risks; if I fire a rocket it's because I think that any of the possib...

RookieAutopsy wrote:The mission timers now seem much more generous and scale with map size. I am unsure if RNF timers also scale with map size?

Not for extract package/hack workstation/destroy relay missions.