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Rendezvous are kinda like your regular GOps mission in that they spawn in the region and you need points to reveal it, but instead of the mission needing intel points from your rebels, it uses points generated by the soldier advisor. The higher the ranks of your advisor, the more points they generat...

Not really. You'll have to buy/rescue another one.

On a related note, you really shouldn't have deployed that Engineer if the region wasn't liberated.

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Yes, it's not uncommon that one of the pods contain a faceless, and I've also encountered a pod consistent of all faceless and had to fight 5 at a time. I think it becomes rather common mid-late game. Having the Greater Faceless DE makes finding roaming (mk2) faceless more likely.

Must stop if able: Infestation (Chryssalids), Alien Infiltrator (Faceless), Rapid Response (faster Reinforcements).

Vigilance used to be killer on 1.2, but ever since the stealth nerf I've been opening on the first pod and now I don't care. Show of Force is also pretty annoying but manageable.

It is the second time I read this (maybe it was already you the fiorst time, I can't remember) Blacksite tends to spawn several regions away from your home region, say, 4, on a different continent. If you expand horizontally, you'll have a shorter path to it once revealed than if you expanded to th...

Even if my Sharpshooter comes with abysmal aim, I still take DFA. With the other aim bonuses (Damn Good Ground and Lone Wolf), plus a Scope and Stock and the rank bonuses you'll eventually get enough aim to get good odds vs most things. Or at least good enough to Double Tap the big-bads in the open....

I also do an average of 2 Facilities on a successful campaign.

I know it's not exactly what you asked but I'll tell you this: completing the campaign without losing to Avatar is not so much about raising vigilance to slow Avatar but about expanding horizontally fast enough so that when you liberate your first region you are two jumps away from the Blacksite and...

Specifically for 8-man squads? So... HQ Raids and Golden Path missions?

- Technicals (missions are too long). Although if said 8-man mission is a troop column then they turn very valuable.
- Hacker Specialists that aren't officers.

Try setting all the rebels to work on regions with very high strenght. That should do it. Retals get harder the higher the strenght tho. Mybe you expanded a lot and it's taking a long time to fill the buckets.

Sounds like I was super lucky. Decided to skip the first pod thinking the evac was going to move, apartmently delayed the reinforcements until I was near extraction over it. Seems like a good strategy, they usually hang on around one of the first buildings, to the right. Last time I did it tho ther...

It always seems like you don't have enough early game and you're always wondering if you want to deploy one of your few shinobis on a mission and then get annoyed when a Smash and Grab or Extract VIP pops up and you got no shinobi to scout ahead.

Well, not only you need up-to-date tech, you need your "hard carry" soldiers to be at least GSGT. By hard carry I mean the serious damage dealers: Crit Rangers, DFA Sharpshooters, Shotgun Assaults and multi-shot Gunners. Because at M3 and beyond nothing will die to a single shot (except wi...

Don't get me wrong, I grab EXO everytime, just right after I make my Sharpshooters, Rangers, OW Specialists, Assaults and Gunners relevant, which doesn't take a lot of time, or resources, say 200S and a minimal amount of elerium and alloys. After that I try to grab 2 extra EXOs (so 3 plus the SPARK)...

I find the weapon techs to be underwhleming. You get a small, incremental advantage, and to really leverage it, almost everyone has to have it. An EXO Suit has a larger, more dramatic effect on the battle, and you only need one. Ballistics work fine until Tier 2s become common, which is about the t...

Or you know, dedicate yourself to weapon techs instead and now ALL the barracks can fight. You don't even need to get everyone an up to date gun, you're fine with half of your people getting Lasers, then the other half waiting up to Magnetics and so on.

The evac is fixed to the spawn point, so you have to go aaaaall the way to the vial and then aaaaaall the way back. Also I think RNF start dropping as soon as you grab the vial, regardless of the RNF timer, but you get plenty of turns to kill everything before you grab the vial, if you aren't OW lea...

One problem with Combat Awareness is that it assumes that you don't have anything better to do than to end a turn overwatching. Another one is that they simply won't shoot the SPARK, which defeats the purpose. And then you have issue that AI might just run the overwatch, SPARK misses with its crap a...

The only SPARK that's good at shooting is the one that does it with proximity bonuses. So I go down the middle except to pick Bombard. Also just because it's a "tank" doesn't mean you're gonna leave it on its own like it's invulnerable. I still play to leave nothing uncontrolled. If it hap...

I'm not sure on the exact names of each mission. You start without concealment on all of them. Supply Defense : Triggered by rebels being detected on the Supply job. It's a map crossed by a road littered with trucks carrying boxes. No enemies spawn in the map, but Reinforcements drop or teleport eve...

Well I always pick Combat Fitness on the OW Rangers (and most of my Crit Rangers) for the HP and mobility but Kill Zone is nice to have, although a bit overkill considering Rapid Reaction is free. Tho Kill Zone is a much better skill to have when opening from concealment, or when you know a pod will...

Well I prefer Close Encounters but generally you end up with with multiple Assaults, so you can mix it up. Rapid Fire's strenght over CE is that you can use it with RnG, you can double down on targets 5+ tiles away and it's better vs Codex (not really a problem with sufficient tech) and Avatars (you...

What trigger missions related to Heavens? What you mean are the (Mini and Full) Retaliations. The other people got old info (pre 1.3), so don't pay attention to that. I'll give you the simple explanation. You got 3 Mini Retaliations that are job related (Supply Defense, Intel Raid, Recruit Raid) an...

Unconscous is a goddamn cancer that shouldn't be in the game, period.

"Oh look, you had a bad roll, here, now you have -1 soldier, and -2 if you want to carry him out of the mission".