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Fire grenades all the way. All other explosives kind of suck, other than rockets. Plasma grenades are expensive to research, and still cost elerium cores (wtf?). Then, you need Advanced Explosives Project which only allows you to BUILD the bombs, it doesn't upgrade anything. All things considered, e...

Yes, the target can take cover. If it could not, I wouldn't see "flanking" bonus listed in the Critical table. I was testing this against an Advent Officer.

Based on the description of the perk, it should work from concealment, since when you attack an enemy this way, you get the "flanking" bonus, as listed on the screen when you aim. Hit and Run states that you get a free action after taking a standard shot at an exposed or flanked enemy.

I would actually just mod out Combat fitness from the perk trees, and give those guys Lethal or something. CF seems like a perk that anyone should be able to get, since it is, you know, just fitness. And I never picked it anyways, since it is up against Killzone, Rupture, Saturation, and Traverse. T...

I have decided to let my Sharpshooters use the SMG, so they might make competent scout/officers. An unintended consequence of this is that they can also use rifles. Not a big deal, until you realize how this interacts with Death From Above. It acts almost like a Serial, as long as you get a kill off...

Indeed, Gunner was a favorite of mine. The amount of work they did was amazing.

Thanks for the tips, I didn't know about those mods.

That should take care of what I want.

This build was from LW1, where a gunner could take holo targeting (which was applied via suppression, where this does not seem to be the case in LW2), also could take Shredder Ammo. Their job was to lay down fire, and essentially provide fire support to the team, and spend less time actually firing ...

There are already mods that do "Overwatch All", and "Evac All", which I think are mandatory to any Xcom 2 build, would the devs consider adding an option that reloads all allied soliders? During mission where you have a lot of soliders, having to reload them individually is very ...

I really don't like that aspect of the AI. I wish they'd suppress me more, make me think more about how to remove their overwatch or suppression, how to outmaneuver them when they're using special abilities. I might be wrong, but I believe that in LW2 just a few enemies are actually capable of usin...

The Poker vs Chess comparison is pretty neat. Thinking back, the idea of the post was just me saying that it is very hard to go back to "vanilla LW2", after some measure of comfort that RD provides. There is enough randomness in the damage spread in RD that it is not "pure math",...

No Dark events were in play, this was near the beginning of the game, 3rd mission. I suppose this could have been caused by Roulette somehow, I will continue to play the campaign, without Roulette, and see if I observe similar behavior. It sounds like mixing Reliable Damage and Damage Roulette is l...

Disorient, Smoke and Poisoned effects are all now only -20%, so the Trooper would have had 5 more aim than you would have expected in 1.2. The base aim of a Advent Trooper Mk1 is only 65%, but they also benefit from close range bonuses, which would have provided a chance to hit exactly equal to tha...

I witnessed a disoriented Advent Trooper hit for 3 damage against full cover. Now, to do the math, full cover offers 45 defense, which combined with the -25 from being disoriented means the trooper is shooting with at 70% penalty. So, there should be no way for him to do any damage at all, let alon...

I think this may indeed be true. After starting a new campaign, I loaded up Reliable Damage, and had Damage Roulette activated at 50% as well. I witnessed a disoriented Advent Trooper hit for 3 damage against full cover. Now, to do the math, full cover offers 45 defense, which combined with the -25 ...

Generally, but it is sometimes very painful, when your soldier becomes slower and can't make it to the evac zone. That said, the enemy does suffer many more wounds that you, so it is logical that Red Fog helps the player mode.

I am indeed a huge fan of chess (rated player). That might be why Reliable Damage appeals to me more, since I can figure out the best moves that will result in the least wounds on my side. Where otherwise, sometimes I am just at the mercy of RNG. That said, I think Red Fog needs to be turned off, as...

After running a campaign with Reliable Damage mod, coming back to 1.3, it is quite upsetting to miss back-to-back flanking shots, that otherwise would have been kills. RD has taught me to be more calculating, since I don't have to worry about sudden bursts of bad luck which are hard to otherwise avo...

It is for that reason that I played my last campaign with Reliable Damage, to see the difference, and yes, not having to worry about missing a 90% flanking shot (or rather, being guaranteed to do enough damage for a kill anyways) is a huge load off my mind. Likewise, you don't have to worry about yo...

Amen.

Could also add "Thou shall always assume the worst", and "Thou shall not baby-rage when RNG doesn't always go your way".

Definitely agree. The whole thing could be as shortened by 1-2 seconds, which would go a long way.

I like the idea. Suffering a "poisoned"-like debuff for a turn afterwards seems like a fair price to pay. Having, say, 2 charges of the stuff would be nice too, with the second charge causing the debuff to last for 2 turns, instead of 1 (overdose).

The Serum is an item I am a fan of, because I like the idea of a short, powerful buff that you use when needed. But now that these things cost Berserker corpses to make, AND they dissapear, it seems like you never want to use it, since there could always be a "better time". How about we ma...

So this means that a miss can be upgraded to a Graze, if i roll a crit? This means that a high crit chance is almost like a reverse Grazing Fire.

An additional point against Plasma is the need to develop each weapon separately, unlike the other tiers, which just have "regular" and "heavy".