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Actually the devs thought of this scenario: if you liberate every region, the aliens retaliate by invading EVERY REGION simultaneously.

the AI does try to flank the cover you're using on said tank. Also you need to dispatch the ability-using enemies first, and there's more of those than there's "only-shooting" ones. The snipers (and off-tanks) need to be placed to take advantage of the flank attempts - the AI will expose ...

Can I have a single Shinobi going around aggroing pods, and then hunkering down to keep the pod in the same place while a squad of Snipers (4-5, one of them holo-target spec) shoot down the pods from squad-sight? I already do that for timed missions too on Veteran. Specifically about your current t...

I want a 2nd tube for respec'ing. Some of my later assaults took an experimental build but I can only respec 1 as it takes the better part of a month to respec now.

In the earlygame, you bring lots of flashbangs to safely interrupt Sectoids, Vipers, overwatch, etc. It's a magical time where what class/build your soldiers are is nearly irrelevant compared to "do they have frag/flashbang?" At midgame you actually have the tech and soldier EXP to contemp...

So I did a Rendezvous in a region the 8-man GOp squad was very active in (including a UFO stomp). This was what I had to kill 1 faceless: 1 SSgt Ranger with Laser 5 volunteer rebels 3 Resistance Mecs Hardest part of the mission was not using the missiles in case corpses blow up. Hey Psieye, Enjoying...

It's fine, it's there for the unorthodox long-range assault, who might not even have a shotgun. With Stungunner, it means you have +25 hit chance to do some mech damage from far away. Now, "why would you ever build a long-range assault?" is a good question and one I don't have much of an a...

Welcome to the scarcity of corpses in LW2. Someone made a mod to let you carry corpses out when you evac because they couldn't cope with the corpse economy. Basically, in most missions XCOM is too busy getting out of there that they don't have time to slowly gather corpses. This is why 0% infiltrate...

If those 'early game troopers' are gunners, you should expect to lose someone whenever they are allowed to shoot. Murphy's law. Cover on its own is never enough. Stack other buffs in addition to drop Advent's hit chance to 0 or below and then you won't be shot. Have a plan for the OW wall that Adven...

8-man GOp squad gets briefed on "Preventing a resistance data leak": 2 hours (after Avenger flight time) to infiltrate, 14 turn limit to destroy alien relay, Extremely Heavy alien presence. Anti-climactic turn 1 when no pod was in sight. Snipers have plenty of safe ground to move around in...

vohich wrote: Only thing that made me sad - bug with unlimited reinforcements

Working as intended. Kill the alien beacon to switch off reinforcements.

5 guys hiding this region ftom eyes of Advent Wait, what? If I'm reading this right, you've misunderstood what the Hiding job does. It's not "rebels are actively doing camouflage work to make it harder for Advent to see this region's activities". It's "rebels doing nothing so Advent ...

8-man GOp squad vs Extract VIP - 22 turn limit, Moderate (2 days of infiltration, 29%) Turn 1: shinobi spots pod. All non-snipers get in position. Entire pod is holo'd by Multitargeting. MSgt sniper pops Serial and Deadshots a Sergeant. Pod rushes into cover, 1 dying to OW wall. MSgt sniper walks ac...

Thing with Snapshot Sharpshooters is that they seem to work in paper, but in the actual game the AI prefers to take cover paralel to your firing line, so you will rarely get to move your sniper to a flanking position from behind your line. You would basically need to be behind enemy lines risking a...

In general, modern-day consumers want as much information as possible and producers want to release as little information as possible. The latter is because information released to the public is a liability: not just from consumer grief, but competitors using the information against you. Now, in PI'...

Part of the nerf to 0% supply raids.

Oh yeah, forgot an item. Propaganda missions. I just don't feel that they work. There is basically never a time when I want to spike vigilance in a low vigilance region. It's good that they were removed from the GOp pool, but I'd like to see about making them viable missions rather than just gettin...

My unorthodox 8-man GOp squad (Veteran, non-Ironman, June, Peek from Concealment) mandates I bring 2~3 specialists of which at least 1 is a medic. Preferably 2. What is the point of tank when they can tank only a mission then sleep a month in the hospital. Most of your team will stay in the hospita...

While I have had one campaign where I needed a workshop just to keep excavating (I only had 2 engineers), that was also a campaign where I didn't do missions all the time. In that sense, spending 100 supply to excavate 100 supply isn't exactly sensible. Maybe they could do more as haven advisors tha...

The saga of the 8-man GOp continues. Escort Scientist, 22 turn limit. The team made it out in 9 turns, no reinforcements came. 23/25 aliens killed (3 were zombies). Wounds: 5 days on the guest tank: a Technical. Notable moments: - 2nd pod activated while moving an assault forwards. The shinobi offic...

Assuming that rule doesn't exist then, the formula in javascript looks like this: EDIT: script has been corrected and updated here . function discoveryChance(intelPerDay, requiredRebelMissionIncome, discoveryPctChancePerDayPerHundredMissionIncome, ticks) { var currentIntel = ticks * intelPerDay / 4;...

You can "cheat" using some Commander's Choice mod or reload until you get the chosen or at least an acceptable class. Which I consider perfectly valid - why should class choice be random? I used to, and now I consider it a fully fledged cheat. Not having to hold back with amazing rookies ...

I just looked up the details on the detection calculations, and they work a little differently than I thought. RequiredRebelMissionIncome is actually subtracted from your total intel pool, and only the excess intel counts towards detection. So for a RequiredRebelMissionIncome=100 and DiscoveryPctCh...

My Squaddie assault who was limping at Mobility 8 from 1 HP is turning in his grave. The rest of the squad got out after the shinobi punched the dark VIP, got Sectoid panicked, survived, picked up the VIP body and ran. All while my Lightning Reflexes guy trolled 10 enemies by running around and only...

@psieye Generally there is only so much you can do early game on the strategy layer. I mean I go 100% intel + scanning every game usually. I just know personally I've gotten really unlucky and only had like 4/5 doable mission 2 months in and felt like my run was pretty much over cause I had no supp...