How is the alien activity determined for Hack tower missions?

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josna238
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How is the alien activity determined for Hack tower missions?

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I am quite confused, because I have currently two towers available on diferent regions, one has strength 5 and another strength 9, but both show Activity: Moderate on squad screen. Is the activity fixed for these missions?

And if it is, is the same for the facilty assault?
LordYanaek
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Re: How is the alien activity determined for Hack tower missions?

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All parts of the Liberation Chain (apart from Liberation 1) have an Alert Modifier of +3. The tower in the str 5 region should have an Alert Level of 8 and the one in the str 9 region an Alert Level of 12. It's the same for the HQ Assault.
I'm not sure exactly how Alert Level is translated into Activity Level.

Facilities (Avatar Facilities as well as the Forge or Blacksite) usually have a lot of enemies despite no Alert Modifier on UFOpedia so maybe they are hard-coded somewhere and not affected by Alert Level.
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