Faceless Free sector

[infidel901]

I think there should be some way, through missions or research or preferably both, to insure that you can exterminate faceless from your havens. I mean, it's a cool mechanic as it is, but after the resistance has seen the faceless appear among them a couple times, can't they come up with a blood test or something? Yes i know they might not have labs, but your ship does.
Again, the existing missions are cool, but I'd like a way to keep things faceless-free after a while.

[sambezi]

I would at least like to have some clue whether you cleared or not the haven from faceless, because as it is I don't ever see myself sending an engineer or scientist since I have absolutely no idea if they have or not a faceless infiltrated.

[Arcalane]

Rooting through the files the other day, I saw something that implied not all faceless can be found in a single Rendevous mission - and that some of the volunteers for said mission can in fact be disguised faceless too.

However, if a region has recently had a successful Rendevous with Faceless kills and is not actively recruiting, I understand that it's relatively safe to assume that the region is clean. From what I've read of comments/posts made by the testing/development team(s), existing rebels cannot be silently replaced by faceless - it's basically a roll for any new recruit to be one.

Think of it as being like a d100 to-hit roll with four outcomes; 1-40 no recruit, 41-60 new volunteer, 61-90 new rookie, 91-100 new volunteer that is actually a faceless infiltrator.

Obviously those aren't the actual numbers at all, but I think it gets the point across?

[ShockmasterFred]

Rooting through the files the other day, I saw something that implied not all faceless can be found in a single Rendevous mission - and that some of the volunteers for said mission can in fact be disguised faceless too.

However, if a region has recently had a successful Rendevous with Faceless kills and is not actively recruiting, I understand that it's relatively safe to assume that the region is clean. From what I've read of comments/posts made by the testing/development team(s), existing rebels cannot be silently replaced by faceless - it's basically a roll for any new recruit to be one.

Think of it as being like a d100 to-hit roll with four outcomes; 1-40 no recruit, 41-60 new volunteer, 61-90 new rookie, 91-100 new volunteer that is actually a faceless infiltrator.

Obviously those aren't the actual numbers at all, but I think it gets the point across?

This was a quality post. Concise and thoughtful. Thanks for that!

[Arcalane]

...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.

[Manifest]

...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 it, and if it's too hard I won't. I'm so glad they're reducing the reveal cost to five, awesome balance change, if small.

[Narcissistic_Martyr]

What I want to know is why I can't just chuck a sensor ball at any new recruits to make sure they aren't faceless.

I mean I have dozens of drone wrecks sitting around... and sensor balls aren't that expensive...

[Hazelnut]

...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 it, and if it's too hard I won't. I'm so glad they're reducing the reveal cost to five, awesome balance change, if small.

I've been finding I have plenty of intel, it's supplies I'm strapped for. To the point I've started selling datapads rather than decrypting for the intel... that never would have happened in vanilla.

[NephilimNexus]

Proposed game change: Posting a psychic soldier as haven advisor automatically exposes faceless.

[Garthor]

Psi troopers already have a bonus to faceless detection.