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A critical flaw of these missions is that the haven rebels make them harder by activating the pods at the datatap. I would rather they not appear at all.

I was under the impression Advent could lose vision of your troops. As long as they could see none of them. However After hiding all my units in fog, with no advent sight, I got rocketed with no advent forces seeing my units. Does advent retain vision of units for a turn or something after you hide...

I dislike the mechanic and think your choices should have permanent consequences. No chance I'm going to lower it in our release versions, but mod to your heart's content. I do agree that choices should have consequences, but does the player, especially a new player, have enough information to make...

Make supply raids much less frequent/take less time. I don't care what else is done to change/nerf supply raids/corpse collecting, but I hate starting up LW2 and seeing a supply raid pop because I know I'll have to spend all my available free time playing just that mission. More than half of my game...

I agree, I changed it to 0 when 1.1 switches some perks and left it like that. I don't really see the value or fun in having locked down skills. If I feel I messed up a build I just reconfigure. Means I try things I never would have otherwise. Note I don't use this to reconfigure for specific missi...

Damn... With balancing in 1.2 mostly geared against the player (notable exception of 12 invasion squads), I was really counting on the flamethrower range bugfix and this kubikiri bugfix to play with.

I don't think anything that specifically buffs OW aim occurs before the 70% penalty. Can you confirm or deny this? As far as I know, the 70% (60% for dashing) penalty occurs after ALL penalties. If this was the case, wouldn't this also imply that Hair Triggers apply after the penalty? At CPL Lockdo...

In any case, it's a mistake to ignore feedback from any difficulty level since they all need to be as difficult as they are supposed to be. I just wish more people would give the difficulty level their experiences are coming from as it gets confusing sometimes. I think all XCOM games radically chan...

Nope, not really. You're fishing for someone to agree with you, I simply don't. I answered your question of "does anyone else think that..." Huh? If that was true then you wouldn't have answered since you don't have the answer to that question technically. Also how is it "nope, not r...

Does anyone else wish there was a stealthier option, even a mediocre one, to fit the kit more? Not really, there's too much stealth emphasis already. Yes, and if the emphasis on an undesirable mechanic is not going to be removed the other solution would be to make it more palatable by improving the...

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some input on the Technical's firestorm ability -- is it worth getting? I built my Technical around a lot of the flamethrower stuff (except to get the +defense ability and the shredder ability) and while I'm inclined to get firestorm, but the other two abilities look pr...

What about sat fire?

I really really think LW2 swung the pendulum WAYYYYYYY too far away from sweeps and it just hurts the game. No way. At least half of my ingame time is spent on supply raids that occur nonstop, more than any other mission type. In its current state I don't want any more 40+ enemy sweeps that take se...

Does nobody else think this is excessive? Perhaps you should be expected to be able to take some hits, but the fact that pods can run into you, scamper and THEN fire means that almost every pod can have 3 moves against you on activation. There's not always a way to cover against an attack from any a...

SouthpawHare wrote: Some voice actors are generous enough to consider doing a few short lines like this for free in order to please the fans.

Wonder what his rate is anyway...

Hi guy I've just play long war 2 for a month. After reading a lot of your sharing experience and play. I feel like this game is forced us to lose to gain somethings. For example, my soldiesr shoot a trooper die and I reload the turn, I mostly will miss and I never achieve a better shot than the ori...

Can you not skip the middle tier of hunter upgrades? I was hoping to save some money since most of the hunter weapons aren't that great anyways and... I don't think it'd be amiss, balance or lore-wise, if you could skip buying the middle upgrades for hunter weapons and upgrade directly to the last v...

What is the rationale behind their heavy cost when considering their power level? It's a holdover from vanilla where they really were quite powerful. I wouldn't call it a holdover, the fact that they need xp is new isn't it? But, yeah it just seems like they are really not meant to be nerfed this m...

Where do Gunners get aim in the overwatch tree? As far as I knew, gunners had the same crap +2 Aim/level growth as Shinobis and Assaults, and nothing else... do you just mean Lockdown? Which +15 aim is nothing to sniff at, but A) I'm pretty certain it's before the reaction shot aim penalty of 0.7, ...

I kind of miss the foundry from EW. Sure the proving grounds fills that role, but there are mostly no direct upgrades, only item upgrades and new items. It's not necessary but it was nice.

Kind of off topic, but the entire Alien Hunters dlc is garbage with LW2. I'm playing on rookie even, doing very well. The instant Viper King shows up, total squad wipe. We made the Rulers less crazy in LW2... they don't get a reaction every XCOM turn any more. O_o Oh I thought my nest mission was b...

I haven't used them, so obviously I don't really know what I'm talking about, but why do Psions need XP AND training time? Are they overpowered otherwise? They already cost research, power, money and space (and more research unless you want them to train slower.) What is the rationale behind their h...

...so what the hell do you guys do with low-aim rookies? Coming out of Gatecrasher I had 6 rookies at or below 61 aim, and 5 of those were under 59. ...I don't get what to do with them, really. Make a few into Assaults, sure, but against higher-tier enemies that aim penalty hurts hard, and besides ...

Overwatch Rangers are the best class for overwatch right now, since they can fire once then fire 3 more times with Rapid Reaction. With Cool Under Pressure and an elite hair trigger, it's a 25 bonus to hit reaction shots, which supercedes the normal overwatch penalty, AND they can crit. With 40% fr...

With a few pistol perks they can become quite strong. Fan fire -> lightning hands -> snap shot, that is a lot of damage in one turn. They synergize well with a sapper grenadier and an officer giving them command. This applies to everyone , except with any primary fire at the end of the chain. In fa...