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You don't get XP off QRF pods. I've had soldiers gain promotions from killing reinforcements, so they definitely give XP. As has already been pointed out, they simply don't contribute to "mission xp" that all soldiers receive and share for completing a mission together -- and which accoun...

Heaven, you say? Would you know my name If I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven? I must be strong and carry on 'Cause I know I don't belong here in heaven Would you hold my hand If I saw you in heaven? Would you help me stand If I saw you in heaven? I'll find my way throu...

The Alien Ruler DLC is super borked in LW2! :( I'm not sure how this will work. I had two missions generated close to the same time, with the Archon King being added to the list of enemies. I left the first Archon King at a little more than half health and 1 armor before he escaped. The second Archo...

i have a squad of: - youtubers - tmnt cast - witcher 3 cast - star wars troopers i'm expanding my character pool now that LW2 is out. more squads will come. Nice! I knew I couldn't be the only one! also, for those who feel the squad thing isn't getting much use, due to wounds and lack of early game...

Oh, and I also have a few Sparks, of course.

I like to use squads for specific mission types and for role-playing. So I do the same thing the OP does. But where do all the soldiers come from? I have never played past May. But that seemed like a lot of soldiers. How many total in those squads? I have only recruited about 4-5 rookies. Bought 1 ...

It's a little sad to me that this feature seems to be getting minimal use from players, since it has been such a source of inspiration in my game. For me, the squads are working to the point that I consistently have the bulk of a squad in mission together, if not the full squad. Officers for some of...

I'm probably a freak of nature, as I don't mind the clicking... or rather, it's an acceptable evil for me to have my squads. I have also created a spreadsheet of who is in each squad, so if I pull someone out for Haven oversight I know where to return them to -- not that I need it anymore. I know wh...

I'm curious how others are organizing their squads, or if you pay any attention to this feature at all. I, for one, have completely enjoyed this additional element, as it takes the huge roster we had in Long War 1, and gives it some form and structure. LW2 incentives players to run squads together d...

The thing I really like about DFA is using it with a stock. Shoot, Kill, Steady. Rinse and repeat until the battlefield is quiet.

I think the thing that makes long war long isn't necessarily the progression of the in game calendar. It's that you're running around 10x more missions each month. And many of those missions take much longer to complete due to larger enemy counts and/or difficulty. So the name Long War seems highly ...

By the way, there's already a thread in long war 201 related to this LP.

I nearly wept. I'm not sure why the idea of going through a few missions with no combat is regarded as a bad thing by Xavier, and apparently others on the Long War team. It seems like they're determined to prevent it, but for me, it's fun when I'm able to pull that off. Some missions, I can. Others ...

Love the vids, but I feel like the run has "jumped the shark" lately. I mean, you went through supposedly the second hardest mission in the game (invasion) without losing anyone, then did a 0% hack the workstation and took 1 minor wound. Of course it's attributable to good play and minimi...

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 Hehe, vainilla? Because vanilla XCOM 2 is so vain? :P I guess I've gotten rather lucky in my campaign, on veteran. I'...

I kind of wonder if it has a similar problem as Trojan , where it doesn't create the effect that produces a new MEC in the local haven if you hack it from Squadsight. Not sure if the fix in 1.3 for Full Override helps with all the problems people are getting. Interesting. I'm pretty sure I did hack...

LordYanaek wrote:Ignore the mission, there have been someone reporting he tried to do "The Nest" a second time and Viper King never showed up, effectively locking him inside a mission he can't finish!

Thanks. Will do.

I just popped in to say "Explosives on the Ceiling" could be a great name for a song, for a punk band, or something.

marceror wrote:I'm aware there's a bug where this mission can be repeated.

TheCiroth wrote:This is a known bug, they think it has to do with how LW2 generates POI's. They are working on it.

Right, I'm aware that it's a known bug, as my quote above indicates. I'm trying to ascertain the potential risk of the bug to my campaign.

Incidentally, perhaps the perk should be renamed "Not Quite Full Override" until the bug can be resolved.

I launched my LW2 campaign with the Vahlen DLC enabled. Early on I got the lead to locate the special weapons. Much later on I got the lead to scan for the special mission. I've long since completed that mission, and encountered the Viper King in a subsequent mission and killed him. I've done the au...

Full Override is good even without the "recruit a mech" part because it has a much higher chance of controlling the mech than haywire does. Clearly is still provides some value... but we all have different priorities and play styles in the game, as my previous post suggests. So mileage va...

Even without keeping it, being on a separate timer to haywire is useful and a super heavy mech with damage control makes a great mission long tank. I'll probably keep it on the particular specialist I currently have it trained on, but creating an army of advent mechs on a mission doesn't really fit...

Thanks for your reply Trihero, as usual. I guess I'll avoid that perk on the rest of my specialists going forward.

I did manage to get a resistance mech early on from a lead, and that one showed up just fine -- but that has happened only once in 7 months or so.

Oh well.

The description indicates that you can take permanent control of a mec, and "potentially" acquire Advent mecs for the resistance. So what is the "potential" for this to happen vs. not happen? I was just in a scenario where by all rights it should have happened, but it did not. I ...