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... so you may need to play on Veteran for the same experience. You mean legend, right? rookie -> Veteran -> commander -> legend I am playing on Veteran right now since this is my first LW2 playthrough and it goes smoothly except when either unexpected Things happen (like faceless on dark VIP Missi...

You make WotC Sound quite spectacular, damn it.
But no, I'll hold off until LW2 Support. I have to be strong now, more than ever! Also no Money, I spent all on Scotch.

Very informative, thanks!

I had my first dark VIP missions where there were several faceless all over the place. Since it was my first mission of this kind PLUS faceless dark event for the first time, I watched my squad get wiped several times before now deciding to reload at a spot in the mission where I survived my first f...

It's not that reinforcements don't give exp, but pavonis have pre-defined the number of kills that give xp for every Mission. So for example if you maybe didn't trigger all pods but killed reinforcements, you will get xp from those reinforcements until you have reached the Maximum number of kills yo...

A stationary sniper will underperform in a mobile mission even if you make it work. He'll lose the DFA bonus, he'll not use his stock because he needs to keep up and so on. Snapshot or holo snipers are a whole different story. I don't even regard them snipers, they rather take the scout role from LW...

Psieye wrote:The location of the fixed evac affects tactics as well. In some Jailbreaks, the evac is on the other side of the jail. In others, it's very close to your starting location.

Right. That can be a problem if you planned to use a stationary sniper since he will never have a quiet spot to nest on.

Personally, I have Intel running in 2 of my 4 regions and I plan to liberate them. I try to Keep a low Profile on the others so I can run easy missions there in the future. But I'm afraid even my supply guys there are pushing up vigilance quite a bit. But I guess you can use a "get advent's Att...

Gotta say, timers are alright in LW2. Most unforgiving IMO are those vip rescue timers where you see 24 turns remaining but doom reinforcements start dropping at about 12, 14 turns remaining. One every two rounds. That is hell, especially when you first find out about this. And I agree with poster a...

I had one lancer for the autopsy, to make my mouth water, even researched it already, but now I Need another corpse.
Forgive my saying this but
where
are
my
corpses

I would highly recommend any one new to decision making to play Xcom Ironman mode. It is a good simulation on risk taking, mitigation, and consequences. Just do not spend all your time playing and forget to do your actual pay job. :shock: If I had xcom 2 on my work pc I would not work at all. Say w...

I agree. I remember playing xcom 2 quite some time back and the game felt unfair so often. In Long War 2, you will be OK most of the time if you handle the strategical layer well and makes safe moves in tactical. Sometimes you will go unlucky, but not because of something as unlikely and stupid as g...

One could argue that DLC and WoTC are thought of as two separate things. There might very well be overlap with WoTC. Yeah. You could consider fatigue and infiltration as overlap right there. I'm excited to see how they're going to deal with this once they announce LW2 support for the expansion. A m...

I have one idea how to simplify inventory management: the definition of standard equipment for a soldier. Yes this is exactly what they did in xenonauts and it was immensely helpful. Basically an equip-profile for every class. If you could have as many profiles as you want, with names you can edit,...

Haha great 8-turn hack Mission. Goddamn sneaky sneks

I just started playing Long war 2, I was playing Long War 1 for hundreds of hours in the original XCom: EU and finally, after many fresh starts because of updates, finished the campaign for the first time. I stopped playing XCom 2 halfway through some years ago because Progress was too fast for me, ...

Bugs. Misclicks. The before-the-consequence screw up when you meant to do something else but brainfarted and did the equivalent of putting your queen in front of Advent's pawn. Science. If I want to test perk interaction I'll give myself a mulligan in advance. Lame loss of concealment. So getting t...

A bit misleading, I think you wanted to say faceless Rendezvous detection is based on the rank of the soldier Liaison, is that correct?
What does the actual difficulty of the Mission depend on? Advent STR in the Region?

Oh shit in my campaign I think GV is 37. I must have pissed them off good.

Wait so you actually delay the Avatar Project by raising vigilance by being a pain in the d*ck?

So if I understand that correctly, the reason why you don't spread out earlier and contact other regions is because that will set you behind the 4 Intel you get from the avenger scanning? And since that will set you behind in the Liberation schedule, you actually lose more resources by getting a Reg...

So you put your personnel on Intel until you got at least 8, freed personnel from Mission then goes into recruit and supplies you get solely from missions?

Oh ok. Yeah I've had the same problem just today.

Hi guys, I watched xwynns play and noticed he remains in a single region for a long time before contacting others. I wonder, why? What is the drawback to contacting until you reach the comm limit, except loss of intel? You get to build up other regions faster and get additional funds. But xwynns bei...

Not sure if you know this and just find it unfair or if you actually don't, but: you only get to see activation warnings for enemies you can see. Often you don't see the full pod and hence don't know which tiles might be dangerous to step on. In most situations, you can solve this by approaching at...