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by Steve-O
Tue Aug 01, 2017 3:03 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Switch AWC+Psi Staff to Engineers or Both?
Replies: 9
Views: 14349

Re: Switch AWC+Psi Staff to Engineers or Both?

Steelflame wrote: My record was a haven personnel who had 8 base HP, 70 base aim, and 16 f***ing mobility base with a rifle.
Careful with the language, please. This is intended to be a family-friendly forum.
by Steve-O
Mon Jul 31, 2017 2:41 pm
Forum: Modding Long War 2
Topic: Enable Sparks to use Famethrower and Rockets
Replies: 1
Views: 5054

Re: Enable Sparks to use Famethrower and Rockets

I think you would probably also need to enable the use of the Gauntlet as a secondary weapon, instead of the BIT. That should be possible based on what I've seen of the config file where soldier equipment is defined (I know SPARKs have an entry, like all the others.) I'm guessing it will either lead...
by Steve-O
Mon Jul 31, 2017 2:29 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: All my regions have advent strength 1
Replies: 4
Views: 7373

Re: All my regions have advent strength 1

Ugh, so I guess I just start over. And I felt so good about succeeding for once. Will it at least fix itself once you uncover those regions? Or you could just enjoy the easy win, and then start over for a fresh campaign. Smoke em if you got em. ;) I seem to recall reading that ADVENT only (or at le...
by Steve-O
Fri Jul 28, 2017 3:53 pm
Forum: Pavonis Interactive's standalone XCOM 2 mods
Topic: Long War Mods and WotC
Replies: 4
Views: 27718

Re: Long War Mods and WotC

Keeping in mind that Pavonis explicitly has "nothing to announce regarding LW2 in WOTC," I think it's fair to make the following assumptions: 1) They will eventually release a version of LW2 that is WOTC-compatible. It may take a year or more after WOTC's release, mind you, but I fully exp...
by Steve-O
Fri Jul 28, 2017 3:41 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Shinobi Stab Animation
Replies: 4
Views: 7309

Re: Shinobi Stab Animation

Probably has something to do with calling a general "meleeAttack()" function for certain activities (like KO'ing a hostile VIP.) For most soldiers (ie: the "default soldier template") that ends up being an animation where he cold-cocks the target with the butt of his gun, but for...
by Steve-O
Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:54 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: User Interface Design
Replies: 26
Views: 43509

Re: User Interface Design

PS: If you want all your rookies to have the same stats (for the sake of simplicity) you can turn off "Not Created Equally" in the options menu. It's turned on by default, and that's what randomizes your soldier's stats so that they become better suited to one class over another. The parti...
by Steve-O
Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:31 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Stun Lancer - restricting unconscious status effect to already wounded units
Replies: 25
Views: 35747

Re: Stun Lancer - restricting unconscious status effect to already wounded units

I mean that doesn't even make sense! How do you hit my armor, not even do any real damage to the soldier, and yet unconsciousness is the result? Given that the lancer's weapon is essentially a giant heavy-duty taser rod, I'm actually OK with the idea that they might zap you through your armor. Unco...
by Steve-O
Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:27 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: What trigger missions related to Heavens?
Replies: 15
Views: 18660

Re: What trigger missions related to Heavens?

Putting all the rebels on jobs will raise vigilance in 1.4 I think, but not as much as actually doing missions in the region. Also, ADVENT needs Strength 7 (I believe that's the limit) in an adjacent region to initiate a retal. So, if you want to deliberately provoke such missions, I believe what yo...
by Steve-O
Wed Jul 26, 2017 4:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: [Suggestion]Bonus exp for completing missions without getting spotted
Replies: 4
Views: 19635

Re: [Suggestion]Bonus exp for completing missions without getting spotted

Stealth in XCOM2 is a cool feature, but it's not a core gameplay mechanic. XCOM is not a stealth game. Concealment is not something that's meant to be held onto for the whole mission, but rather to provide you some initial cover until you come out shooting when the time is right. Stealth in 1.2 was ...
by Steve-O
Wed Jul 26, 2017 4:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: My LW 1 is broken, please help.
Replies: 1
Views: 12321

Re: My LW 1 is broken, please help.

Do you have the game through Steam? If so, go to properties and find the option to "validate local files." That should reset everything to a fresh installation. Make sure the EW expansion pack is checked to be installed in the DLC menu for the game (along with any other DLCs you may want),...
by Steve-O
Wed Jul 26, 2017 3:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What are your favorite turn-based tactical games other than XCOM/LW?
Replies: 6
Views: 27990

Re: What are your favorite turn-based tactical games other than XCOM/LW?

+1 for Invisible, Inc. Highly tactical, with a small amount of strategic-level thinking, planning out your next moves. Very much "feels like XCOM," only without the R&D part. The campaign is short and to the point, but that just ensures you don't get bored with any mid-late game grind....
by Steve-O
Wed Jul 26, 2017 3:34 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: No Reinforcement Farming vs No Experience
Replies: 23
Views: 34066

Re: No Reinforcement Farming vs No Experience

WanWhiteWolf wrote: Heaven Defense is rated as Very Light. Pretty sure you are going to kill more than 12 enemies before the minimum 5 turn evac timer runs out.
HAVEN. Haven, haven, haven.

HAVEN.
by Steve-O
Thu Jul 20, 2017 1:48 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Lily Shen and the Trial of Unstaffed Engineers
Replies: 23
Views: 33406

Re: Lily Shen and the Trial of Unstaffed Engineers

DerAva wrote:Hm, weird. Do you have a scientist in your AWC?
Yes, I do.
by Steve-O
Wed Jul 19, 2017 6:10 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Lily Shen and the Trial of Unstaffed Engineers
Replies: 23
Views: 33406

Re: Lily Shen and the Trial of Unstaffed Engineers

I've only ever seen or heard these notifications if there is either a not excavated slow in the Avenger or an open slot for an engineer in one of your buildings. She doesn't nag if you simply have open building slots and are not building anything. I've excavated everything, upgraded and filled up a...
by Steve-O
Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:48 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Suggestion: cadavers and experience according to infiltration percentage
Replies: 3
Views: 6203

Re: Suggestion: cadavers and experience according to infiltration percentage

Speaking only for myself here, but I don't really need any more encouragement to go for 100% infil. Getting 100% whenever possible is generally a good idea as-is, and in those cases where going with less than 100% infil crop up (either intentionally or due to short timers) this change would only pun...
by Steve-O
Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:31 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How to Continue LW 2 Campaign After Purchasing WOTC?
Replies: 7
Views: 12923

Re: How to Continue LW 2 Campaign After Purchasing WOTC?

As with EW, i expect a launcher where you can choose to play the base game or the expansion. I expect so as well, but if there's a core file that exists in the base game and gets modified by WOTC, then having the WOTC version of that file might cause LW2 (or possibly WOTC itself) to fail and/or bug...
by Steve-O
Mon Jul 17, 2017 7:26 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Couple odd things.
Replies: 6
Views: 8999

Re: Couple odd things.

I'm not 100% sure on this one, but it seems that whenever you lower a target's hack defense using redscreen rounds or bluescreen bombs, it re-rolls the random variation in a specialist's chance to hack. At least I suspect so, because redscreen never changes hack chances like I expect, I've seen it ...
by Steve-O
Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:34 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How to Continue LW 2 Campaign After Purchasing WOTC?
Replies: 7
Views: 12923

Re: How to Continue LW 2 Campaign After Purchasing WOTC?

can you give me any advice as to how I may continue my current LW 2 campaign given Steam's propensity to automatically download and install pre-purchases? I expect you could simply uncheck the check box beside WOTC in the DLC menu in Steam (ie: leave it "uninstalled") to continue playing ...
by Steve-O
Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:06 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Vanilla classes?
Replies: 13
Views: 19905

Re: Vanilla classes?

I think to use the vanilla classes, LW2 would have to be metamodded to disable its classes and not disable the vanilla classes. As well, so much else is changed and there's no guarantee the progression of the vanilla classes would work or that they could face the challenges of LW2 without other mod...
by Steve-O
Fri Jul 07, 2017 3:40 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Luck in the Early Game
Replies: 13
Views: 18723

Re: Luck in the Early Game

What difficulty do you play on? LW2 was built so that you aren't supposed to be able to do every mission, in contrast to vanilla where you get punished for not completing every mission. Even top players like Xwynns aren't able to complete 99% of missions on legend. I'm currently playing on Rookie. ...
by Steve-O
Thu Jul 06, 2017 5:59 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Specialist Medic is useless
Replies: 18
Views: 27616

Re: Specialist Medic is useless

I agree that medics are less useful in XCOM2 than they were in XCOM1, although I don't think I'd call them "useless" personally. Having never played vanilla XCOM2, I can't really comment on how much of that is due to Long War 2 and how much is just because of how Firaxis made XCOM2. I will...
by Steve-O
Thu Jul 06, 2017 4:13 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Luck in the Early Game
Replies: 13
Views: 18723

Re: Luck in the Early Game

@psieye Generally there is only so much you can do early game on the strategy layer. I mean I go 100% intel + scanning every game usually. I just know personally I've gotten really unlucky and only had like 4/5 doable mission 2 months in and felt like my run was pretty much over cause I had no supp...
by Steve-O
Wed Jul 05, 2017 2:55 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: 1.5?
Replies: 33
Views: 55558

Re: 1.5?

Can we please get some info on the 1.5 release? No, you can't. Pavonis doesn't comment on release dates, ever. Ever. Not even if you say "pretty please." The reason is because if they DID comment on a release date, and then something delayed them (a new critical bug is found, the lead dev...
by Steve-O
Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:06 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Reinforcement Farming
Replies: 19
Views: 29553

Re: Reinforcement Farming

I suppose I will be in the minority here, but I am not a fan of artificial caps, and that includes artificial experience-earned caps. If the guys killed the troops they should get the experience. I agree that I'm not fond of artificial caps as a way of forcing the player to move on. The XP cap bein...
by Steve-O
Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:00 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: ability bar can no longer scroll in latest long war2
Replies: 3
Views: 5673

Re: ability bar can no longer scroll in latest long war2

Sounds like a bug to me.
If you have a savegame file that shows the issue with just LW2 as your only mod, hang onto that one in case a dev wants to see it.