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I love this mechanic because it makes scouting so important and means you have to be aware of whole battlefield at all times. If I am in a firefight, and I have scouted out 2 of say 3 directions a pod could engage me from, and haven't seen a pod in those 2, then I know I want all my soldiers to end ...

Some good thought put into this, one major problem though is that first you limited the class to 2 inventory slots, and then second, you put a bunch of pistol perks in one of the trees, which means they have to use one of the 2 inventory slots on a pistol. That would make me not use this class. Just...

I just think that not making some kind of grenades amounts infinite is totally illogical. Like "I can make Smoke Grenades without any limits but making better version of them is limited. But... why?" Or firebomb. Sorry but it's nothing more than just a simple molotov cocktail. Some flamma...

ArchmageMC wrote:Any chance of you guys getting the T3 Grenade launcher working? It is apparently in the game files but was never used? Or is that just a rumor?

Considering how massively powerful (and probably OP) the tier 2 launcher is, I wouldn't hold your breath for the theoretical tier 3.

"Unacceptable. There is no other difficulty." That statement negates any validity your critique may have. What you are essentially saying is "I already have he requisite skill so any problems I have are with he game and not my ability". You beat LW1 on I/I, congratulations, it's ...

I'd actually say it's not punishing enough and that if you can't afford the upkeep, buildings should start to go offline. Maybe you get kind of a pass the first month, like Bradford and the crew found a way to keep things running with spit and duct tape, but the second month you can't meet your upk...

I'd actually say it's not punishing enough and that if you can't afford the upkeep, buildings should start to go offline. Maybe you get kind of a pass the first month, like Bradford and the crew found a way to keep things running with spit and duct tape, but the second month you can't meet your upke...

Rooting through the files the other day, I saw something that implied not all faceless can be found in a single Rendevous mission - and that some of the volunteers for said mission can in fact be disguised faceless too. However, if a region has recently had a successful Rendevous with Faceless kill...

Am I the only one that thinks commanders choice is a bit OP as hell. No, you are not. CC is massively OP and the devs did well to not include it. If you don't like getting a low mobility assault, just turn off Not Created Equal and and all your soldiers start the same, turn on Hidden Potential if y...

The irony in this thread is delicious.

I already specced into the flamer every time, even before this change. They take a lot of skill to use properly (conceal ambush), but wow can they turn an otherwise impossible mission into a relatively easy one if pulled off correctly. Or just wipe you entirely if you get spotted trying to setup an...

I imagine it doesn't feel particularly fair to the aliens that we get Concealment and a chance to ambush them on every mission. The best way to mitigate damage from this is to make sure that you end your soldiers turns with them in cover against areas that you haven't scouted. After breaking Concea...

This whole thread was heart warming. Great job LW community!

Hate the timers. Always have and always will. After the first timer mission I did, I bumped all timers up +10. lol I get that you don't like timers, but by basically removing them you are making many of the missions in LW2 trivially easy. Since the rubber banding mechanic was removed by this mod, t...

I think it's a cool mechanic. Overall it's usually an acceptable level of risk because only a small number get to fire, so they're unlikely to kill anyone unless you get extremely unlucky, and pods hearing you fighting and coming to investigate is very thematically cool. The major exception is when...

Oh, I didn't know about the Hero Units, and totally forgot they existed from XCOM1. I was just personally hoping there would be yet another special mission for Van Doorn and getting him in normal way :P Sorry for rather troll post :\ You've earned a troll post or two around here, so no worries :) S...

Its still unlikely even with that explanation, if you are going to start losing that damn much in supplies you are going to start doing things like guarded drops, or at least timing pick-up sooner, the fact that three quarters of your supplies from that Haven goes missing is just too much... It'd b...

I use them exactly as I do any other soldier. Bad stats is a self-correcting problem: eventually they die or you win. Either way problem solved. I don't even look at my troops stats very often. Only when adding gear, in which case my goal is to increase strengths not fill gaps (usually). Nothing pr...

I typically wait until I've Liberated a region to really start putting tons of rebels on Supply though. Until then I try to subsist on BM and Supply Raids/Troop Ambush missions/Excavation. Supply Raids and Troop Columns are hard to detect without lots of rebels on Intel. What, specifically do you s...

With the addition of the 5 ablative armor (does that increase as the Spark goes up in level or is it static?) the only major gripe I would have is that they can't use weapon mods. Especially since they only have the 3 weapon types. I'm sure somebody will mod it, but it would be nice as an official c...

It's not an invalid complaint, but it's also harder to satisfy than you might think. There's a necessary but tyrannical thing in game development that requires we lock down our text well before the game is released. We call it "loc lock" internally -- loc being short for "localizatio...

Oh wow... this really is going to be a whole new experience. So much new info! The ADVENT Base Assault and Invasion mission types makes it sound like the guerrilla conflict is being replaced by all out war when a region is liberated. How is XCOM/the Resistance able to match ADVENT in full-on sustai...

Who are Bradley, Valin and Chen? LOL. There is this small, but vocal minority of players that are still OBSESSED with the idea that XCOM winning should be canon. It just leaves a bunch of narrative holes. The major one being technology resetting back to ballistics, but there are others. There is no ...

What about Squadsight? Does it still have the aim penalty for snipers? I know Firaxis included this to make gunslinger the better option, but since Sharpshooters are no longer pistoleros (that's an assumption, based off of the secondary weapons) did you eliminate, or at least decrease the harsh SS p...

A minor question, but a pertinent one for me, I run a mod that adds lots of countries not included in the base game as countries of origin for my soldiers. In the original LW, you guys added a ton of countries, did you do so this time around, or should I keep that mod on my hard drive? Also, thanks ...