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Sword shinobis are also very strong till late June - early July even with basic gear. I had basic swords until my first HQ in early July and that didn't stop my full-sword shinobi from being my first MSgt. I agree. I understand that sword shinobi are considered somewhat risky to use due to their te...

I had a pretty cool experience tonight. I had a Ninja and Specialist duo on a stealth mission for hacking a computer. The campaign is currently in mid-June on Veteran Ironman. I've been doing quite a few stealth missions successfully (ironically, more than in previous versions of LW2, as I used to b...

Thanks everyone. I followed the advice here, skipping the Data Leak mission and simply being prepared for the retaliation. I actually got a regular retaliation and an intel retaliation both, one immediately after the other. Both went quite well.

I have the option to do a Data Leak mission, base activity of Light, at 0 days 14 hours. As I understand, completing this mission means that I will not get a retaliation, and likewise, failing to complete the mission will mean that I get the retaliation immediately. On the surface, it is tempting to...

This is not intended as any sort of criticism or serious matter; more of a fun thought experiment. How many people would be necessary in order to keep the Avenger functioning and the army maintained in a realistic Long War 2 situation? How many of those generic jumpsuit jobber guys would be needed, ...

nmkaplan wrote: Yeah I knew that. Remember when they were allowed to show up on Network Tower missions?

Technically, Network Tower Missions aren't "Timed Missions" in the strictest sense. They just have unbeatable death reinforcements after a while.

LordYanaek wrote:the guerilla theme don't really goes well with uniformization

Oh, I agree. Dressing up my guys like a team of Sentai Warriors instead of realistic guerilla warfare soldiers looks absolutely absurd. I do it anyway.

The aliens must be super color-blind or something, lucky for me.

It's a common option (AFAIK) to color-code your soldiers based on class for easy identification, especially in Long War 2 with so many soldiers. Everyone who does this does it a little differently, and may well be something of a sacred ritual to them. How do you color-code your troops? Additionally,...

It is possible to happen, though it's not supposed to. When the tactical scene loads you are not concealed right away and concealment is triggered once the units are loaded, which can cause anything within LOS to activate and then lose sight to concealment. I've had it happen with turrets which is ...

So I just had a situation where enemies activated instantly as soon as I entered a mission. It led to an awkward situation where I had active enemies, and yet my entire squad was still concealed, so they saw us but also didn't see us. Can I assume that this is a bug? It occurred on a Rescue Prisoner...

All balance requests really need the following information attached: - What difficulty are you playing on? - Are you playing pure Ironman? Ever reloaded a bad pull? Restarted a mission that ended in a wipe? - Do you type console commands to move your soldiers? - What game changing mods do you use? ...

From all the talk I've heard from people about how they break the game if you do too many of them, it's filled my head with images of people just casually doing them as some sort of cheaty auto-success. I gotta say, though, that in my experience, they are unbelievably difficult . Not even like regul...

Hm, I really like this! It makes sense both mechanically and thematically, I think.

Ronar wrote:...the player is suddenly forced to contact a bunch of regions around the world in an almost unreasonable amount of time to beat the game.

This is kind of the main intention of the hardest difficulty mode, yes?

SMG, Ghostwalker, Covert, 200% infiltration against a Sentinel. 2 tile detection radius. Against the shieldbearer, 1 tile detection radius. Without Ghostwalker, the Sentinel had a 7 tile detection radius on the Shinobi! sneaky sneaky.jpg At the same time, I had a Grenadier with an SMG that had a 9 ...

Yea that building with no doors is a bit dumb. How do ADVENT even get inside. Considering that the towers are many floors tall, I think it's implied that there are stairs/elevators that the enemies take up and down to work on the top floor. It's possible that the interior of that section is only re...

So, I understand why retaliations happen based on reading other threads. They essentially occur due to having so many workers working, either overall or on a specific job (and faceless count double). The question is, how much should you actively try to avoid them? Sure, they are bad, and almost stri...

I will say that a key difference between my play style and, say, a lot of the popular Youtubers out there, is I have the luxury to take my time on, well, everything. I'm not at all concerned about being "entertaining" to others, so I will regularly check my Havens to make sure my rebels a...

I'm all but positive that it's said somewhere, either in the description and/or in Bradford's voice-over explaining it.

I would advocate deleting it from the game. It's one of those things which will either be a trap or a must-take depending on balance. Right now it's obviously a complete waste. There's nothing wrong with being a must-take; that's how it was in vanilla. It was never a question of if you were going t...

I play on L/I, but I don't see why stealth wouldn't be the most powerful option on every difficulty? Well, for me, I think it's the fact that I'm already in the middle of my campaign. I've been playing this single save slowly over the last few months, and through multiple version updates. I started...

I play on L/I, but I don't see why stealth wouldn't be the most powerful option on every difficulty? Well, for me, I think it's the fact that I'm already in the middle of my campaign. I've been playing this single save slowly over the last few months, and through multiple version updates. I started...

I'm one of the "nerf stealth" proponents, and I don't think the problem is that playing the game without stealth is impossible or unfun or whatever. I don't think misison timers are too short, I think grazing is fine, I don't think infiltration times are too short, and I like permanent Da...

I've seen a lot of criticisms lately about the overall difficulty of missions in such a way that forces unfun stealth-based play. However, I think most of these cases are also being played on Legend difficulty, which I feel makes them less valid. As I see it, Legend (which was previously known as Im...

I'm re-downloading XCOM 2 to play LW2 again, because on various ocassions, i never got through the SECOND mission! That's right, i passed the first one, kept playing around in Geoscape for a while, then got my first infiltration mission and OMG it was hard! Besides the time limit, which was fair (1...