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I run 0 supply raids both on Commander and Legend (Because I don't detect them in time, even running 13 on intel and the Avenger there) Your not 'supposed' to detect them in time. They are designed so that you should almost never see one that is doable in a campaign. They are similar to UFOs in thi...

I always go AWC > Engineer > GTS. I don't really see the value in GTS first. I don't find officers worth that much in the early game and I can level rookies faster on missions. The AWC is most valuable early game as the wound times tend to spike if it's more than a graze. The perks are also nice to ...

BTW. Isn't the force fail strategy a waste of time? AFAIK, the cooldown starts, when the mission appears, not when you finish it. So it doesn't actually do you any good to finish it early. (aside from a possible xp bug for your rookies I read about) E: I just checked. The same mission won't come ba...

Hi, the description was not totally understandable in the game. I thaught Coup de grâce only triggered when the ennemy's HP was 50% or lower. Reading your posts, it seems to work all the time, or at least, as soon as the alien had been hit once. Could you confirm ? It is not the purpose of this pos...

Thanks for the info. Hm, I probably leave the guys on their job then and only switch the avenger. The avenger only gives intel, right? If I have 4 Rebels, it means another Rebel every 6-7 days (depending on liason). It would take about 20 days to go up to 8, if all the new ones got to recruit as we...

One of the things I do with some of my sub-optimal squaddies is actually to spec them out for Havens. A lot of people will do this as well but completely neglect the poor sap. What I actually do is put together a full haven defense squad. When a retal happens, I pull all the advisors and send them o...

True, although it is on the developers to keep the game interesting if they are going to use repetition. I mean this for any game being made. It's a choice between making every level unique and making few of them, or making templates that get re-used and allowing for some means of uniqueness through...

That's why they called it LongWar not ShortWar. The people who enjoy the game, like that it's not over in 5 hours. If I had it my way, it would be 200+ missions long. Imagine how much you could complain then!

I don't know specific about the mod itself, but if they are replacing the LW classes and you wanted to keep them you'd have to edit the mod configs to remove everything they do. The perks themselves should be available otherwise I would imagine. In the end it shouldn't much matter whether the change...

Alketi wrote:

chrisb wrote:

Alketi wrote:So, before every enemy scampers to high-cover, how would you design the opening engagement?

Remove squad concealment and make everything ITT by default.

Well, that would certainly make small squad stealth missions more interesting.

Might have an impact on the 'volume' on reddit as well.

Alketi wrote:So, before every enemy scampers to high-cover, how would you design the opening engagement?

Remove squad concealment and make everything ITT by default.

Class perks are set in XComClassData.ini in the mod.

Might be interesting as a mod. For the stock LW though would be a nightmare to balance as the permutations would be huge.

That also gives me an idea for how to use info leaks to find faceless. Not exactly which rebels are, but if the haven has some. The recruit time should be predictable, there's no RNG. After reading this, I suspect it will be random in 1.4, maybe already in 1.3 :mrgreen: Maybe, I'm not really sure h...

Unknowns are unreasonable the first time they happen. Then you get revenge

it's not abnormal for one soldier's pistol perks to be dealing 45 damage in a turn as you enter the latter stages of the game, and earlier on in the game abilities like lightning hands, clutch shot, and fanfire are extremely strong. You say that like 45 damage over multiple shots is impressive. So ...

There is a simple solution for yellow alert that I can't seem to get traction for. The shots should be treated like overwatch shots. Aim malus and no crit chance. Easy peasy, problem solved. Sure it's easy to say, doesn't mean it's easy for the devs to implement. Some game mechanics are coded in th...

I do use it a lot on Rendezvous (kill Faceless) missions where all that you have is maybe 1 Soldier Haven Advisor and some Rookies. Setting it up from height advantage (usually there is 1 building in the middle of those maps to use) for some aim bonus helps a lot. One side note - if you have 2 pods...

ndessell wrote:

JoINrbs wrote:They're only underused because people don't realize they're absurdly strong though.

Im going to kindly disagree. they are at best ok alternatives to most classes regular skills.

Only one class matters though.

Even watching the Xwynn videos, it is apparent that the "strategy" layer is a lot more RNG than actual "strategy" I really wouldn't base the balance of the strategy layer on that campaign. He attempted a fairly unorthodox starting strategy, and It didn't not fair out well for hi...

Thanks Goldenmonkey finally answer the question! Gotcha Again, Triple Enemies, Additional Mission Types LW2 Edition, ABA2 etc .. I tried everything but be careful to use too many mission.in files, the game goes sometimes do not start even crash. we all know friends, it takes hours to try and try ag...

The progress is not lost, but the days income is. Other than missions, updates to jobs happen once per day, missions are every 6 hours. So If you switch from intel to recruit, the next daily update will produce nothing. And of course your not getting intel for missions going from recruit until the d...

I can see that, and I used to use Commander's Choice. The only time I use it now is when I do campaigns of all one class. Doing one now that is all Assaults. Much Crits, Many Fun! The general point I wanted to get across is that this RNG is basically the whole game. If you can learn to manage this R...

I think the only thing going for longwatch is it appears to not be effected by lightning reflexes. Other than that it can be quite the anit-perk if you use a concealed unit to scout and your sniper decides to shoot. Almost worse than covering fire.

Rebels are MAXED in most regions for the better part of early months in my games already & i STILL get impossible odds to reach a mission site in time even while stealthed. Define "MAXED." How many rebels per region are we talking here? Most regions begin with 4-6 rebels in my experie...