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It is the same in vainilla, was changed in a patch because "surfing" the countdown was, basically, an exploit. If you play vainilla before the patch probably didn't see it Wow, really? I only remember the surfing version. I feel like it was in the exploitative form for a long time, and th...

Is there still a final countdown after the Avatar Project Counter fills all the way up, as in the vanilla version? Or, due to the longer bar overall, does the game just end immediately after all the pips are filled?

Wow, I am just about to launch this mission for the first time in my Ironman campaign. Thanks for the heads up!

...and yeah, it would be nice if I didn't have to be a regular forum-goer to have found this out.

As a side-note, does anyone actually know where the soldiers learning in the AWC do supposedly go? It visually looks like purely a MedBay, and I assume they don't just sit in the biggest, fanciest bed and download their new skill...

I assume it's a holdover from EW where you make genemod soldiers from putting them in a vat (tube) of orange goo. I see. That makes sense. I never actually ended up doing much with MELD, since my only experience with the EW expansion content was through Long War 1, and it took fifty billion pounds ...

I've seen a lot of people referring to the various training stations in base builds as "tubes". i.e. put the soldiers into tubes to train. Why is this? I always assumed that they were just regular classroom areas in regular rooms - you can see a little instruction school area in the GTS. I...

Fictitious1267 wrote:Removal of all Bradford voiceovers.

Man, Bradford sure gets a lot of hate. Am I the only one who actually enjoys his character and the VA's performance of it in XCOM 2?

I think he single-handedly makes this game epic as hell with his badass radio chatter.

I don't what difficulty you're playing SouthpawHare, but on Legendary, there are some missions you will find out about with only 1 to 3 days left before they expire. You will never infiltrate a fighting squad in time without facing a lot of Aliens who you will never be able to fight through within ...

It's safe and reliable, check out xwynns videos and then ask questions if we can help further. Well, here's a big one: What is the penalty for killing a Dark VIP compared to taking it alive? I know in the vanilla game, you lost all of the Intel reward, which here is potentially the entire reward. A...

I don't what difficulty you're playing SouthpawHare, but on Legendary, there are some missions you will find out about with only 1 to 3 days left before they expire. You will never infiltrate a fighting squad in time without facing a lot of Aliens who you will never be able to fight through within ...

I hear a lot of people talking about doing stealth missions often, and that doing whole missions within concealment is pretty strong in the meta-game. I never do this, due to bad experiences in earlier, failed campaigns in which the stealth squad always had no choice of revealing themselves and then...

Could someone explain to me how these "enrage timers" and "turn softcap" mechanics work? I've never seen them occur, and frankly, I hope I never have to considering I play on Ironman.

So, here's a thought. Instead of adjusting the missions that are imbalancing the game due to dropping so many corpses... What if corpses themselves had diminishing returns? What if the amount you could sell corpses for kept dropping with each one, until they were all but worthless after an extent? A...

Good post! Matches my experience on a lot of points. 1) They're the most efficient in terms of 'bang for your buck'. If I do a Stun Lancer autopsy, I get an upgraded sword for my Shinobi; that boosts one of the attack modes out of 1 of the 8 classes. If I get Combat Armour, I get Predator Armour, w...

So, maybe this is just a balance thing, but something that's kind of bugged me... why can't you move people between Havens, anyway? I mean, after missions involving the haven workers, we see them get picked up by the Skyranger and brought to the Avenger, and then assumedly dropped back off - why can...

So, I was trawling through the INIs and found a few interesting things. [*]Codex corpses are recovered even if they die to explosives. [/list] Spoiler re:main campaign- This also applies to Avatar corpses Hope you find this interesting, folks ^^ I'm pretty sure that this applies to the Alien Rulers...

A good game with a technical relies on being able to burn well while concealed. Without that, the flamethrower is not used well(I sometimes use it instead of the main gun because it is guarantied damage on the one target) And the biggest issue with the rocket is that it is too loud, every pod on th...

I'm super into this. Pretty excellent idea, IMO.

Definitely a big thank you to the devs! LW2 has become one of my favorite games ever, and it just keeps getting better at a rapid pace!

What exactly is the significance of the items on this table with a range of "0 tiles"? Isn't that basically nothing?

If a grenade launcher fires in the woods and no one is within 0 tiles to hear it, does it make a sound?

The mission consists of a squad that needs to make its way to a console to hack the network tower which will turn off the reinforcement timer before eliminating all enemies on a the map. From the wiki. I guess it says as much on the mission objectives as well. Being listed as an objective doesn't n...

Some of the new mission types lack any pre-mission dialog by Central, and as a result just don't have that same dramatic flair to them (especially Gatecrasher, which doesn't feel the same without a briefing to go with the awesome music). So, the natural question is: is there any hope of having new d...

I've been massively enjoying my run of LW2, but I just recently had a squad wipe on the Network Tower mission. I thought I had actually been quite fortunate, since my specialist managed to make a mad dash to the console and complete the mission to hack the tower and deliver the broadcast before bein...