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so that's the actual number of troops you can potentially meet that gives XP number?

i.e if I infiltrate against 15 advent and not 9, then I get more XP? I'm speaking without killing any.

There are many discussions on the usefulness or supposed over-powerness of many perks. Sometime there is a near consensus (like a 70/30 split in the player population!), sometime the debate rages for many pages. Because some perhaps are very contextual, so it adds up in the difficulty of balancing t...

Hi,

Can someone confirm that mission XP is only based on the baseline number of enemies?

The Advent legions, aka Alert Level is only increased through timed events, according to the wiki. So not that much from Xcom activities? Meaning that if there is no rubber-band mechanic where the more you kill legions, the more arrives to compensate, would it not be possible to keep things under co...

After defeating Julian a first time, I got proposed another lost tower. Without much thinking, I launched the mission, thinking of something else ... but no, it seems I'm again in the DLC, with the longish chain of room to tackle. Or it starts the same but this is different? It sure seems like a bug...

Agreed, it should boost all experience sources, but much less than +33% in this case, because it should not be a no brainer pick. Probably +15-20% XP for 150 supplies is a good balance in most games. Pricey, but significant interest. As for reinforcements, yes they give XP and they should definitive...

Hey, I don't have save, sorry. Hopefully they can be reproduced reliably. 1. Evacuate Haven (or is it defend against assault). I'm allowed 10 men, so that's what I do. In addition I have the liaison and one single operative (even though this Haven had 5+). I also have a hacked Mech for defense, and ...

The whole XP tracking things is kept very much under the hood. After having asked a similar question, no one was even able to answer what is the typical XP value of a mission and what a kill gives. We don't even know if that's in the order of 100 to 1, 20 to 1, etc. Similarly, there is no mod that t...

I have 18 hair triggers, 23 stocks and ... 2 scopes!

Is it bad luck or normal distribution?

Also, stocks are very rarely used. They might have some use, but most often, they are left unused. Check also XWynns videos, I'm not even sure he has actually used any? (although I'm only at video 34 )

I'm ok with that too. No the realistically, painful to do in game thing, but the fact they might be locked a few days each time. Otherwise you are incited to move them around constantly

That's all good indeed, but I also made my choice of Roust because the damages were 1 to 4, not just 1.

So in the end, that's mostly a tooltip update matter.

Yes, but so far that's just about their equipment, not their moving around which is a pain in the alien bottom, so to speak

Perhaps roust tooltip has not been updated and it does 1 damage, period. Because over several rousts, on 15 non armored target, I always did 1 HP damage. As roust is supposed to do between 1 and 4 damage, I had for each of these events 25% chance to do 1 damage. And (0.25)^15 = 0.000000001 so, what'...

Hey, I don't understand why the hassle of moving advisers around is not solved with a very simple quality of life solution. Allows advisers to be taken from a squad (it removes them from it), with a warning. Allow an adviser to be added back to a squad (with a warning). And that's it. No more fiddli...

I had an 'extremely light / 200% infiltrated' kill a VIP mission turns into an exercise into survival. Firebrand was delayed 8 turns, as it was chased by UFO and then reinforcements dropped each turn, with one turn seeing 2 squads of Advents coming. It was very tense, but I managed to evacuate what ...

What do you guys think about these two? I fear more the first than the second, is that normal? It seems for me also that the command pod in the advent tower mission has more chance spawning on the roof than in the room, is it what you see too? Perhaps that's tied to difficult, I'm on veteran ironman.

And the reverse, is it possible to change the time of the day? Sometime I would like to infiltrate at day, not night

There is a XP throttling feature that prevents gaining more than on rank per mission. But are the excesses XP lost or waiting for the next mission? If they are lost, does it means that if you are short of 1 XP to get a rank, you basically waste all that is gained during a mission? And last but not l...

Hey,

Is the shredding effect applied before or after the damages of the ongoing shot? If yes, then I might prefer using shredder ammo and not piercing ammo, if the latter, then I believe the two are somehow balanced, even if I'm comparing an apple and an orange.

When you sort the soldiers roster on a specific column, then as soon as you go back to it, the sorting reverts to 'Rank'. Meaning it is very frustrating to iterate through the list of soldiers on anything other than a sort by rank. Try checking AWC abilities when you want first to consider the 'shin...

Because even in a liberated region, a faceless can sneak in I guess?

Is there any point to have the intelligence job? Should I go the recruit route until 13 and then make them produce supplies?

Am I the only one to think it is a buzzkill to have this feature? Whatever you say, the fact is that many people spend one hundred hours in the game and lose with a roster full of ready-to-fight soldiers. At least there should always be a 'last chance mission' where if you succeed, you remove some p...

That was really interesting!

About the large pod drop, hopefully it starts counting after you are not stealthy anymore? Because that would be frightening!