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Personally, I've had to pick up true concealment to balance out the constant frustration with timers vs big pods. And even then, the resource grind really makes me he head desk sometimes. There are mods that allow you to get more resources in a reasonable way. I mentioned one above, Extract Corpses...

I'm going to retrain that Sharpshooter as a Spotter build. Hopefully I can equip a Rifle or something instead of the default Sniper Rifle. The Sharpshooter can only carry sniper rifle type weapons as his primary, not an rifle. There's two good builds that are someone related, the Spotter and Sniper...

Technicals with the right AWC perk can also have the best answer to the Eternal Grenadier Question: "HEAT Warheads or Tandem Warheads": "Why not both!" :) I think Technicals are tougher to use well because of their different and powerful but limited special attacks and how that i...

EDIT: Updated my builds and narrowed it to two. Shinobi Scout Ghostwalker - Shadowstep - Covert - Shadowstrike - Conceal - Tactical Sense / Tradecraft - Reaper / Rapid Fire Shinobi Blade Cutthroat - Shadowstep - Blademaster - Bladestorm - Coup de Grâce - Tactical Sense / Implacable - Reaper Below is...

Uncomfortably fantastic: My first 2 Shinobis, Jack Uniform and Andy Peterson. Should be scout builds and go with Ghostwalker when they gets to LCpl. But... Offensive: Damn Good Ground, Flush, Rupture Defensive: Covering Fire, Field Medic, Combat Fitness Offensive: Deadshot, Aggression, Run and Gun D...

The payoff for maximizing healing seems much less. The First Rule of XCOM Club is don't get hit. And gear that supports that is vital. But when that Field Commander / Master Sergeant you've spend so long developing gets badly hit, and you have a medic with a Nanomedkit nearby, maybe the payoff will...

Maybe fantastic? Technical Squaddie Tara Kelly. Offensive: HEAT Warheads, Hail of Bullets, Bring 'Em On Defensive: Flashbanger, Resilience, Combat Fitness Mine you, the HEAT Warheads text says it applies to grenades, but a perk should be the same perk. So it should apply to rockets too. She is defin...

Starting it off, it's my Assault Grenadier, Squaddie Matt Cook. Tell us what you have, Matt! Offensive: HEAT Warheads, Volatile Mix, Bombardier Defensive: Infighter, Low Profile, Phantom And Aim 65 and Mobility 16. Some day he's going to Run And Gun someone but good. Just has to work on that weak 3h...

I suggest you rethink shadowstrike - it applies to abilities like saturation fire, iron curtain, as well as grenadier/technical grenades/rockets if you got biggest booms taking them to 100% critical on that initial explosion....it is easily one of the BEST awc perks. My shadow striking iron curtain...

It was a supply raid mission with low infiltration and I launched the flare after clearing the first pod with the idea of have the EVAC prepared before engage the rest I don't think you made things worse by throwing the evac flare in that battle. I think the enemy pods were put on yellow alert by e...

Ranger, the only soldier class besides SPARK I still only having a single build. And with the high time out-of-action to change perks, I always plan to build for the length of the campaign. Only when I have multiple builds for a single class do I vary how I build when (example, for the Supply Raid c...

They get super hard really fast on legend. I peaked in a network tower mission on legend in october in a strength 10 advent region (this is about average at this stage in the game for regions you have done missions in), and holy smokes...21 hp elite officers with 1 armor pip....scouts with 100 aim....

Yes, a facility built in a power coil room consumes no power. A coil adds 7 power output if there's a Power Relay built on it. Don't know what happens with the Workshop, which in LW2 produces 1 power (as opposed to consuming 1 power in stock XCOM 2). Dug through the LW2 v1.1 INI files for the values...

Xwynns keeps talking about sharpshooters being able to paint 6+ targets with the holo. I know there is a free action holo but can you use the normal holo twice per turn if you don't move, or does holo end the turn? Edit: Sorry I just figured out that the rapid target perk confers the ability to hol...

When we launch an EVAC flare do all the pods turn into red alert? If you hadn't broken concealment before throwing the evac flare, it will break then. If any of your now unconcealed troops are in sight of enemy, those enemy pods will active, doing either green alert or yellow alert actions. Whether...

Surrealistik wrote:...early Covering Fire without any supporting perks is crap.

...and the Ranger gets it at LCpl and the Specialist gets it at Cpl. At least with an AWC perk the soldier likely has greater aim and perhaps other overwatch supporting perks.

Sorry to sound like a broken record, but i'll keep repeating: the stealth mechanic is entirely optional. just get True Concealment and you can manfight through every single mission. Well, almost. sometimes you just gotta grab the objective and evac. But again, you can do that without stealthing. A ...

So...I just had my PG do the project that gives me Nanomedikits coz I had a brain fart and thought having all my medikits heal more hp would be pretty useful (as in Vanilla). But of course I get a single kit in the inventory with the option to build more for 20 supplies each and I'm just bashing my...

admo wrote:Once a pod has been alerted and entered the yellow alert patrol mode, will it ever return to green?

As far as I know, a pod never goes down in alert during a battle. Goes yellow or red, stays at that level, except yellow going to red later.

This page lists all of the AWC perks. Several relate to particular weapons. Since the AWC perks are granted to classes that don't normally get those perks, how do they work? Better to look at the actual config file, XComLW_AWCPack.ini in the LW2 Config directory: <Steam install directory>/SteamApps...

I didn't say they were guaranteed wins, but I really don't understand the statement that they are high risk. You don't risk losing the shinobi unless you make a massive blunder, and still that's just one guy. High risk is if you send 5 guys on a rescue vip mission, ur gonna lose a lot of men if you...

I've had those almost-never-saw-ADVENT missions too. On the large maps, just running from ingress to the jail to the evac can take most of the time limit. It was one of the urban maps with tall buildings and good rooftops though so I was able to really control lines of site using the buildings, the ...

Wot? These are probably the easiest missions in the game, and on top of this, the risk is minimal. Send one shinobi try to get 200% infiltration, try to find the longest way around to avoid the mobs. Even if your VIP gets spotted, it's pretty hard to lose the shinobi. I did two maps at 190% and 189...

I can understand that feeling. In longwar 1 you almost gain supplies/money. With supplies you can then buy something and get cooler stuff. You always do get rewards in longwar 2. It is just that what you usually get is intel. And you can't buy anything with intel. In the end intel is important and ...

Watching xwynns do this in his Legendary video series didn't prepare me for how hard these missions are. These are some of the hardest timed missions. I often skip them unless i really need the scientist or engineer. Its just too risky in my opinion. Early in a campaign, especially at Legendary, eve...