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Eh. They don't kill anything. They only last one turn. Flashbanged enemies can still shoot at you. They fill an extremely important role but I don't feel they are overpowered. More just necessary. If you nerfed them then gunners would just become even more powerful relative to other classes. And we'...

Bleedout chance is based off of overkill damage!

Thanks, that's really good to know. Makes medkits more valuable.

I think Insanity should disorient by default if it misses. Otherwise some unreliable chance to do maybe nothing at all is too weak. Yes, you could make that a boost skill (like it is with arc thrower) but then the base skill is worthless. I don't think I would ever use it instead of shooting / throw...

LW2 generally does a great job of a) removing the gaminess of trying to assign kills to specific soldiers, and b) killing everything for the sake of it. With that in mind, is it appropriate to keep the vanilla requirement that shaken soldiers go on a successful mission without getting hurt AND get a...

Are you sure there's no other pre-requisite for psionics? I've done sectoid autopsy and I don't see the option. It is quite early in the campaign (early May) but this time I got a load of scientists and not many engineers, so I thought I'd go early psi lab before proving ground. Does it perhaps need...

I thought about sharps being able to take SMGs but I think there are balance problems. Specifically you would stop using shinobis as scouts because a holo sharp would be just so much better. As it is a phantom holo sharp has to be pretty careful without access to SMGs or ghostwalker, which is probab...

Note a workshop also gives you the +7 power (+8 in total). Yes, you ultimately get more efficiency from shadow chamber or other fully upgraded buildings but those will be fairly late game, when you are (probably) swimming in supplies anyway. I think it makes sense to put your workshop on one, saving...

Currently these are very hard and you can't evac. In 1.2 you will be able to evac, but not sure if you can still win the mission if you do. It is an important mission and worth taking risks for. You should do it sooner rather than later because advent will be reinforcing the area, with the effect of...

Some possible changes to address this: - Make missions more or less likely to be detected at different stages in their lives, with a weighting towards infiltrating 4-6 guys. So you'll get slightly more that are viable to fight, balanced by slightly fewer that are viable only to stealth. - Slight up-...

Sorry, posted this under the wrong category. Should be in general.

While useless in vanilla, I find I actually occasionally have a use for mind shields now that I have more equipment slots. Good on a shaken soldier. Good on a stealth mission as sectoid mind control (or even panic) is game over. But they are really expensive. 20 supplies is a lot. 3 elerium is a hel...

My squad for these would always include at least one sniper, preferably two. If I'm going hang with 10 men, then maybe even three. Sneaky shinobi is still useful for scouting. If you have a holo sharp at SGT with phantom, that's even better because he can do something useful while stealthed. You nee...

I like that mission rewards and the black market make even good soldiers replaceable. However, I find myself with a surplus of holo sharps and sawn-off rangers because I buy/rescue them and they have dumpster stats. Now the secondary builds are fun and useful but you don't need loads of them. Which ...

I run two builds: 1) Marksman: Walk fire -> Locked On -> Cool Under Pressure -> [any] -> Ever Vigilant -> Rapid reaction -> [any] The role evolves as he progresses. Early on he's a finisher - and walk fire is a great perk and locked on helps. The OW perks really come in at GSGT, where you can dash i...

It is. Not sure if it's +25 but definitely a good bonus.

I've done one on Commander and found it a breeze. I also took 8 soldiers (takes too long otherwise) but my advent strength was lower (about 4). I also infiltrated to 150% to knock a few off. Not sure how much difference that really made but I think I got it down to 'very heavy'. I had about 30 enemi...

If most of your rebels are total noobs then they can still lag behind and have lasers, but by the time you have coiltech most of them should have mag.

Some of them were levelled up but I only had laser tech, not mag. So sounds like rebels not getting lasers at that point is deliberate.

Pretty sure rebel weapon tech is supposed to lag one step behind yours, so rebels get lasers when you get mag weapons.

If that's WAD then fair enough I guess on the rebel point.

The needle one stands though. It didn't increase damage against non-robotic Advent.

PS. Not sure if it's relevant but all targets were suffering one or more status effects: stun/disorient, poison and/or fire.

PPS. Also it was definitely a bug in effect not just display: on one shot the laser rifle did 4 damage without grazing.

Pretty sure it's 2 rookies now.

But yeah, my psi lab just completed and I want 1.2 changes to apply before I put anyone in it.

Two observations: Needle rounds: ranger with laser rifle had no increased damage vs unarmoured advent soldiers. Not just one target but through the whole mission (a troop column). Definitely not mechanical targets. Rebel weapons: I have a full suite of laser weapons (3 lances, 2 cannon, 2-3 scatter ...

I suspect you'll find Pavonis have limited appetite for a complete class overhaul of this nature.

If you have suggested tweaks / perks that relate to the existing concept, they might be more receptive.

Worth noting that Lib 2 and Lib 3 missions will usually look pretty unattractive: short infiltration windows and lots of enemies. But if you have 4-5 days on the clock you should do them anyway, as it probably won't get any better. Boost the infiltration. Stealth them if possible. Be prepared to los...

IMO mobility and low detection radius is always valuable to a shinobi because it will spend most of its time scouting. The pushes you towards SMG, which sucks as a weapon, so you rely on your sword to fight. Now for sneaky missions you want all stealth as you won't be able to fight your way out of t...

Inclined to agree. If I only get 1 rocket I want it to have more oomph. I've had some epic rockets but mainly underwhelming ones. So I think the scatter is ok, the damage falloff is ok, but I want higher max damage potential and possibly bigger radius. I don't see anything that makes me want to use ...