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My ranger with locked on and lightning hands isn't getting the Locked On bonus for using lightning hands. Perhaps it's intentional, if so that's a shame, it seems like a small nice little synergy to make Rangers better with pistols.

Muton Elite has a personal shield that surrounds it in purple distortion and absorbs 5 hp damage. I'm trying to figure out why an elite in particular wouldn't go down. Ah, no I don't believe I gave it a chance to activate a shield, it was the activation turn after it got hit with a rocket. I'm pret...

At least then, people would not wasting tons of their time trying to position their teams close to objectives when in fact, none of that mattered. I would have just ambushed the first pod and called it a day. I dunno. Feels deceptive, IMHO. While Firaxis didn't explain this behavior ingame, they di...

It's August 30th in my Legend Campaign and I still haven't gotten the Alien Rulers POI (I've gotten the one that gives me the weapons, but not the nest), I've gotten the Lost Towers and Liberated a region, but still no nest. This is making me really nervous, I feel like the Viper King is going to sh...

In this patch 1.1, now that you can access the AWC from the AWC perk screen for a soldier, you can insert a Spark into the AWC. You cannot insert a Spark into the AWC directly from the AWC, so I'm assuming you're never supposed to be able to. I'm sad to report this, I think some Alternative AWC opti...

No I have not completed that objective actually and i'm not entirely sure how to. You take missions with rewards called "Find a Lead". These will reveal other missions or places for your avenger to scan, among the things they reveal are missions with "Liberation" in their text. ...

The concussion rocket does phenominal evironment damage well beyond the actual AoE of the rocket. You can blow cover without spawning smoke on the targets or just level buildings and drop whole pods to their doom. It also comboes insanely well with Shinobi and Assaults as the second wave. Personall...

I have played XCOM eu. Now for xcom 2, should I play vanilla or long war 2 for my first playthrough ? You know, once you play LW2, it'll be hard to play Vanilla and have as much fun. It'll be like having two fun games, and throwing one away if you play LW2 first. I'd definitely try Vanilla first un...

johnnylump wrote:Hmm, did the elite have its shield up?

Shield? Maybe so, I don't actually know what that is so that could be it. Do you mean armor? It did have an armor point at the time. Is the shield an ability?

Enemies should no longer alter their patrol paths to intercept XCOM if XCOM has not broken concealment. This doesn't mean that they A) won't sometimes just change direction because they feel like it or B) won't still react to gunfire and explosive sounds, dead bodies, yelling civilians, etc. But th...

This is vanilla behavior removed in LW2 wherever we found it. Unfortunately, we missed a spot (blame us playtesters). That should be fixed in patch 1.1. What part of the behavior is being changed? Will enemies finally have no idea where you are as they patrol since stealth is such a crucial mechanic?

So, I noticed the description for Kubikiri says that Alien Rulers are resistant to the effect, and it also says its works on most enemies. Are other types of aliens immune? I had a Kubikiri Crit on a Muton Elite fail to kill the elite, though I didn't save much proof except for the screenshot of imp...

So you mean as an ability that adds an attack option without removing your normal squadsight attack? Even in LW1 it removed squadsight permanently (if only because they were placed on the same rank as mutually exclusive options). In EU and EW it removed Squadsight, but in LW1, Squadsight was the Sn...

Give the technical an smg . Not for the move, but reduced enemy detection. It lets you get close enough for a good BBQ. Yeah, I do. But on the missions where I care about it the most (Supply Raids and other big ones) are the ones where the pods are biggest and the infil time is lowest (so the enemy...

Slug Shot and Run and Gun deliver more damage, can stack crit, are generally more accurate out of the box and are attatched to a more survivable delivery system. Rapid Fire also comes in before Double Tap. If you're comparing them both doing the same long range job, the most tangible benefit would ...

I don't know if this is helpful but i think it's great for breaking concealment against a big or dangerous pod. I tried it today and it went really well, there was a pod with 2 mutons 1 berserker and a sidewinder. And i didn't have enough damage to kill them all in 1 turn. So i went for the concuss...

I do remember reading that, I can only assume that means that the smoke isn't meant to be a pure nerf, but merely a nerf to killing the enemies, and a buff to running through them. If that's the case couldn't the Technical shooter at least get the smoke or some defensive option too? I don't see a re...

As it stands you won't even be able to flank these targets that you've stunned in the next patch due to the smoke buff, and I know the common response is that "you should run up aggressively into the smoke", but this doesn't do much for the Technical that shot the rocket in the first place...

Where does it come from and how does it work?

After a successful mission, soldiers receive an amount of xp for completing the mission = [the number of enemies on the mission (not counting reinforcements)] / [the number of soldiers on the mission (minimum 3)] * [a per class multiplier, default 5.7]. So, a 4 soldier mission with 12 enemies earns...

After a successful mission, soldiers receive an amount of xp for completing the mission = [the number of enemies on the mission (not counting reinforcements)] / [the number of soldiers on the mission (minimum 3)] * [a per class multiplier, default 5.7]. So, a 4 soldier mission with 12 enemies earns...

If so, add description about rocket scatter and aim influence on the technical's guntlet. There should not be hidden info in the game. There is info when you fire the rocket, it tell you the amount of spaces it can scatter. That's a very rough estimate, it doesn't tell you about how much more accur...

I played 3 supply raids on Impossible in the last two days (from Advent Strength 3-5), the enemy count ranged from 40-44. The highest opportunity time I was given was about 4 days 20 hours. There were typically 5 pods of 8-9 (in fact that's all I've encountered I think, was always five pods) on min...

...although do watch out for a Dark Event where they specifically send Faceless to infiltrate your havens. All the more reason to run any "counters unknown Dark Event" POIs that pop up. ;) Revealing dark events is so pointless in that regard, because If I can do that mission I'm gonna do ...

That penalty is why I never use Snapshot. Just feels like a bad Ranger with a holotargeter at that point. The idea is to keep your snapshotter a little back, that way when pods activate the will likely not take cover that's defended well against the snapshotter, letting them move well into some fla...