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An easy way to fix psi-ops is to just give them no infiltration time on a mission. The first psi soldier can be added for free, and maybe even reduce things overall. They are mind readers after all , which would be a great advantage for infiltration. Someone else said something to this effect also ...

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. ... I think...

Thinking about PsiOps again for a minute. I am thinking about having act as an alternative to the AWC. Once the PsiChamber is built you can stick people in the PsiOps tube -as long as they have never had AWC training. Some of the skills would have to be dependent upon others (Fortress before Bastio...

These sorts of game-oriented-but-contradicting-how-real-life-it's-modeled-upon decisions in the design irk me too. There's 8 soldier classes in the game when I think, especially with 3 skills available per rank, 5 was more than enough, they just had to be revised from stock XCOM 2. Some of the diff...

Oh yeah in vanilla it was a carry weapon for sure on a specialist. It had +15 aim and hit like magnetic tier at rank 1. It's watery now with +5 aim and less damage. It has some armor shredding ability which is bizarre but it really doesn't work well with so many of the double shot skills, and it ca...

Admittedly, I haven't finished a LW2 game since I just got half-way into it but had to restart today, but I gave up the Bolt Caster in LW2. It felt more useful in vanilla, but here, I have so many people that I don't feel as much benefit from the one-shot-then-reload cycle. That said, I think that S...

I agree that supplies need to be a little more plentiful. I'm fine with making supplies lean and having all the prioritization choices that accompany that limitation. That's fun, but in the standard LW2, you can barely breathe. While I liked the game overall, XCOM 1 did that horribly, in my opinion....

I actually don't think they were OP in vanilla. I played through legend difficulty there a couple times (only trying veteran in LW2 right now) and was regularly tempted not to take them on missions because my other soldiers were better. I mostly took them when a Gatekeeper was there and that was for...

I think this idea has merit, but the issue is that there is a fundamental difference in game-design theories. Theory 1: Make a cool game using a (hopefully) fun rules system to construct the game. This includes rules and controls for player expansion and conquest through and acquiring and spending r...

While I love the XCOM 2 game overall and especially the Long War 2 expansion of it (it's much closer to what the game should have been in the first place), this equipment-perk issue has been one of my silent gripes. How does becoming more experienced as a shotgunner suddenly allow me to use a slug s...