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It's literally free resources that you *could* take, that is an annoying, grinding chore to take. This is thereby a game design problem. I.e. it's violating a fundamental principle: the best strategy should always be fun. Exactly this! Just cap Collector and Scavenger according to the originally sc...

NO! with that much nerfs I would just never use it at all. Pretty sure that poster was saying one, maybe two of those suggestions could be implemented. It sounds like incendiaries are unbalanced because they are too readily accessible, rather than that a 100% burning effect is OP. Just make it gren...

I use all three types. I think holobots are the weakest, but they have a role and it's something your 55 aim gatecrasher rookie can do after he decides to make himself a sharpshooter. @gimrah: If you as a veteran of a lot of playtesting say all three are usable, I think that carries a lot of weight...

You guys realize, that "take cover and hunker" makes sniper fire even more potent? Everything that doesn't involve enemies closing in on the sniper actually plays into their hands. If you're fighting the only remaining pod on the map, yes. Otherwise, no. Every turn you take to kill that f...

Just to be more concrete on what we all mean by "AI improvements", here are some ideas for behavior for aliens who are being attacked from who-knows-where: (1) Clueless pods sprint away from danger and spread out much wider than normal to cover more area and try to catch a glimpse of XCOM....

Not only the RNG nerf kind of completely ruins the point of flame grenades, but it also pushes the game even farther in a direction I am not liking: plain cover destroying + shots. The battle strategy is getting oversimplified... Agree with this. 1.3's debuffs to Disorient, Poison, and even Smoke G...

Lots of interesting feedback here!
Edited OP to clarify that DFA seems too powerful in comparison to RT and SS.

To be frank, i don't know why he is griping about DFA snipers when he is happily abusing Combatives to take a good portion of the tough enemies out of the game. That is a much, much bigger concern when following the campaign. Not to get too off-topic here, but I'm pretty sure he'd say both should b...

For Sharpshooters, DFA is too powerful relative to Rapid Targeting and Snap Shot (its two LCPL alternative perks). [Source: xwynns, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgff2ZZwBso#t=12m40s ] (edit: This discussion has somehow become in part a referendum on Xavier "Firemental" Wynns' opinions. ...

- Poison rounds/ grenades. It would help if there were enemies that were susceptible to them, for example Advent soldiers. I think most of the ammo items are fine, actually: at least AP, Talon, Trace, Redscreen, Bluescreen, and Shredder are. The 50% chances for Dragon and Venom ammo make them a bit...

@Steve-O Hadn't seen this; thanks for the link! (tracktwo too, obviously)

Works like a charm! Except you have to manually end your turn if there are enemies on overwatch your Specialist can apply Interference on ;) True... but you should've killed or suppressed that unit by then anyway, right? I'm used to hitting End to end my turn sometimes anyway because I made picking...

Good news, everyone! Turns out you can implement the "free action" option yourself with a simple *.ini edit: Head over to \Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\268500\844674609\Config\ XComLW_SoldierSkills.ini , search for interference , and set INTERFERENCE_ACTION_POINTS=0 Works like a charm!

I wanted to start a conversation on how best to buff the Specialist Interference ability, which costs 1 action to cancel Overwatch on an enemy unit. Here are mine: (1) Make it a free ("green") action . This might make it preferable to just using Combat Protocol sometimes, even if both have...

Like, could the chart with mission types at http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Missions_(LW2)
have a "ADVENT Reinforcements" added to it? (e.g., "Yes, visible timer", "Yes, hidden timer", "No")

Reinforcments are largely dependent ob advent strength in the region. The rate is RNG-based, however, so it is not known before mission when exactly they will arrive. We're not supposed to know exactly when they will arrive, sure. But certain mission types (as far as I know) never get reinforcement...

Or can someone point me to where this info is? http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Missions_(LW2) has no info on this.

e.g., add this line:

MISSION BRIEF:
Infiltration Mission
Extraction Timer: 18+ Turns
Reinforcements: 8+ Turns
Fixed Evac
Revealed Start

Agree with a lot of what's been said in this topic, especially by WanWhiteWolf. Gas grenade - Pretty useless. Not even worth the slot in the inventory. Flashbang is simply better for the same purpose. I think it needs something like -20 aim extra to be viable. End game enemies have 100+ aim. The aim...

I found the bug for this. The event handler wasn't being removed properly for the TrojanVirus effect that is added to the enemy unit. It fires at the beginning of every turn, both player and enemy. The first two ticks it is ignored since the mec is still stunned or mind controlled, and the 3rd tick...

I've tried to fix it. Go to \Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\268500\844674609\Config and open XComLW_Toolbox.ini , then replace lines 55–99 with ;stat swaps are used to configure offsets for initial stats. Note that all swaps can be "reversed" with the StatDown value increasing and the St...

Bullett00th wrote:I thought about the faceless initially but they shouldn' be vulnerable really, seeing as they're just jelly basically

In my experience, jelly is quite vulnerable to being shaped/mangled/separated by a knife!

I thought it was +3 damage.

If the functionality's there, I wouldn't mind LW2 going ahead and, say, giving +3 melee vulnerability to Snakes and Faceless.

LW2's graze mechanic achieves its goals (making damage more granular and less binary and making the AI's low-percentage shots matter more) but can be annoying when it penalizes high-accuracy shots . This can be fixed without compromising its goals. Below I outline a way to adjust graze band in a nat...

hamds28 wrote:Dense Smoke giving dodge instead of defense maybe?

Why not both?