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It's a much, much bigger problem because the soldier can act fully while locking down the muton/archon/berserker. Gotcha. Good point! I guess the question is whether to change the AI melee behavior or to nerf Combatives (e.g., making it an active ability). For Combatives are % success chance could ...

Propaganda would work if it siphoned Vigilance from adjacent contacted regions. Spike Vigilance by 5 but also lower Vigilance in all adjacent contacted regions. That way you could cool down a part of the map you have contacted and more readily force supply raids. Re: Psions I'm experiencing a signif...

Usually all shinobis and high hacking specialists become officers for me. I give high aim / decent defense grenadiers a pistol and train them in the AWC; they also go sapper into damage build. Low aim grenadiers will be support grenadiers and officers as well. This is interesting. For me it's the r...

Huh. How much aim would you guys consider necessary on a sharpshooter holo officer? It depends on the soldiers you have. 62 and lower is definetly holo, but if the initial 2 rounds of promotions made the high aim soldiers into sharpshooters, then I would probably even make the third one into an hol...

A funny thing from S2E62 of XWynns campaign: 'Fire grenades are OP as they will take this (single enemy) out of the game (once for 2 turns). I wish I had Combatives on Gee so I could continue to lock down (all) Mutons (and Archons indefinitely and turn Berserkers into harmless fluffy kittens).' How...

For me, specialists and holo-snipers are the ideal officer candidates. The former take missions with a hack-objective, the latter the rest. Phantom Snipers are a little bit more tricky to use as scouts due to them not equiping SMGs (sadly), but they contribute more to the main squad while remaining ...

The squad upgrades in vanilla was one of the biggest turn-offs. Standardized gear on a rag-tag rebellion squad? It's ridiculous and makes for huge leaps in power once an upgrade is purchased. It completely removes a huge area of player skill - to fine tune which gear is needed and how to position so...

The more experienced I get with LW2 the more I regret training specialist medics in the first place. In my C/I campaign I now start sending them on suicide hacks to catch UFOs (which often pop with just 2 days or so) so that I have SOME use out of them. The one shot spike isn't that much the problem...

Just played the Moderate-Heavy supply raid. Not a single alien. 24 ADVENT troopers in 3 pods. I don't get anything about the supply raid schedule.

I don't see anything in the changelog that would require translation.

I'll revive this thread to have all information in one place: It appears that the command pod is in addition to the regular schedule. I have just infiltrated a supply raid to 99% and it was moderate-heavy activity. Not keen on doing such a raid without concealment, I boosted the infiltration and it ...

The more I think about this, the more convinced I am that the best option would be to keep fire grenades powerful (maybe even slightly increase the power) but make them truly limited by being a consumable item like combat drugs. Cost would be Office Corpse + 5 supplies and if you use one in a missio...

The issue was that grenadiers are pretty weak except as incendiary mules, when they were OP. The buffs to gas and biggest booms is aimed at making other grenade types competitive. We thought about reducing incendiary damage but it was the guaranteed "I won't even have to think about that enemy...

You guys realize, that "take cover and hunker" makes sniper fire even more potent? Everything that doesn't involve enemies closing in on the sniper actually plays into their hands. (1) Clueless pods sprint away from danger and spread out much wider than normal to cover more area and try to...

To be frank, i don't know why he is griping about DFA snipers when he is happily abusing Combatives to take a good portion of the tough enemies out of the game. That is a much, much bigger concern when following the campaign. Let's compare the two: DFA snipers are god-like on untimed missions with e...

How about letting it target non-overwatching enemies and reducing the hack resistance by 10/15/20?

That would allow you to expend a charge to increase your hacking chance on a tough enemy.

So my in latest campaign I noticed an oddity: New Arctic is only connected to Western Asia (my starting region). After seeing this, I heavily focused on the lib chain in my starting region and completed the network tower shortly after the first supply drop. Vigilance spiked and the region climbed to...

The main drawback with rushing PSI in my opinion is the fact that you usually have just ran out of rookies when you complete the Psi Lab and therefore have no one to train. Recruitment is still in its infancy at that stage and the rookie influx from jailbreaks and POIs is unreliable and not very muc...

OK.. after searching for "supply" "raid" - that lead me to this thread - I now searches again for "command pod" and found the post that explains it: I spent some time going through the mission schedules to see where the breakpoints were for the supply raids. Here's a ge...

Still I lost two high potential soldiers, that I could have easily avoided had I spent 25 intel which were available. At 92% I could have understood +2-3 force level, but going from force level 3-4 to force level 9-10 for missing 8% of infiltration seems a tiny bit over the top. Like I said in my r...

It would be cool to have some information about the scaling of the low infiltration penalty beyond "there will be an increasingly difficult command pod". I'm just coming of a 'light' supply raid, where a point of STR was coming in from an unknown region to a STR3 region - my starting regio...

3. This is something more of a sub-point to issue number 2 above but is an area that I'm a little fuzzy on and is unique to my campaign since I've turned the Graze band down to 2. So again, I'm into plate armor research and mag weapons (I've unlocked coil weapon research but chose the armor first) ...

IIrc that's about the first time I've seen it payoff in his current campaign out of what, 28 missions. I'd say it's situational usefulness is extremely rare on a Gunner. I personally don't take Combatives on Gunners because it would be so rare for me to use it that it's not worth spending the perk ...

Dodge and Defense should probably swap meaning as someone with a high Defense is more adept at avoiding being hit (you might say he is good at dodging) while someone with a high Dodge is good at mitigating damage (maybe because he has extra Defense in his armor). The current mechanic is pretty sophi...

Don't forget, that Air Drop supplies extra grenades but not extra rockets/flame thrower fuel.