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Mickey -renraw- wrote:The additions you guys have added to the strategy layer sound awesome, it's difficult to not sound like a giddy fan boy
a few quick questions though

1. Can enemy reinforcement drops be anything other then just Advent troops? as in can troop transports now drop aliens? (they can't in vanilla) I found Advent troops to be boring as mud and tediously over used compared to the colourful varied bunch of aliens that only appear as part of pods and not drop down reinforcements

4. Have you guys done anything with (or, god willing, removed entirely) the "Line of Play" mechanic? In case I'm getting the term wrong I'll explain myself. The mechanic where the enemy tracks your position relative to the missions objective and constantly shadows your squad as the move around the map even though your whole squad is concealed and the enemy isn't meant to know where you are. I found it obnoxious :/

5. How much support will you guys give after the mods release and bugs have been fixed? I have no idea the terms of 2K commissioning you guys to do LW2, but what i mean is, Long War 1 was a massive effort of to-ing and fro-ing of features being implemented to create a balanced environment. If Long War 2 looks like it needs a major feature added to fill a balance hole, will 2k continue to commission you guys to do it, or can fans offer donations as continued support?

fowlJ wrote:

Mickey -renraw- wrote:The additions you guys have added to the strategy layer sound awesome, it's difficult to not sound like a giddy fan boy
a few quick questions though

1. Can enemy reinforcement drops be anything other then just Advent troops? as in can troop transports now drop aliens? (they can't in vanilla) I found Advent troops to be boring as mud and tediously over used compared to the colourful varied bunch of aliens that only appear as part of pods and not drop down reinforcements

4. Have you guys done anything with (or, god willing, removed entirely) the "Line of Play" mechanic? In case I'm getting the term wrong I'll explain myself. The mechanic where the enemy tracks your position relative to the missions objective and constantly shadows your squad as the move around the map even though your whole squad is concealed and the enemy isn't meant to know where you are. I found it obnoxious :/

5. How much support will you guys give after the mods release and bugs have been fixed? I have no idea the terms of 2K commissioning you guys to do LW2, but what i mean is, Long War 1 was a massive effort of to-ing and fro-ing of features being implemented to create a balanced environment. If Long War 2 looks like it needs a major feature added to fill a balance hole, will 2k continue to commission you guys to do it, or can fans offer donations as continued support?

1) I don't know whether they will show up for reinforcements period, but I can say that unless they made new animations they probably don't show up in transports. (Without them they try to use the ADVENT animations, which looks like this.)

4) Technically the mechanic you're looking for is 'upthrottling' - Line Of Play is how enemy pods are placed on the map relative to a straight line between your spawn and the objective, which is also something I personally find bothersome.

5) JL has stated they intend to support the mod and respond to balance feedback more than they did with their stand-alone mods, and from this thread we know that they intend at least content-adding update (with new psionics changes).

deaconivory wrote: 2) The pod mechanics have been completely remastered in LW2.

fowlJ wrote:

deaconivory wrote: 2) The pod mechanics have been completely remastered in LW2.

Good to hear - if you can say, does that include removing the limit on alien species (where all followers of a pod had to be the same type of alien)?

When you're running a mission with one or two soldiers who are trying to achieve an objective and evac it's more likely that points in aim are going to feel wasted than points in will. There's so much flexibility in the infiltration system that a lot of conventional LW1-thinking starts to break down.

deducter wrote:Exciting stuff!

About the multi-mission quest lines, is there one where the resistance investigates the secret behind those damn, juicy Advent burgers?

Jesterofgames7732 wrote:ok so with all the talk about stat's
that brings up a question that i hope you can answer
Will stat's be randomized by default or will they be fixed at a certain amount be by default like the base game?
and if they are randomized be default can we turn on an option that keeps them fixed similar to strict screening?
also i apologize for my poor grammar

fowlJ wrote:

deaconivory wrote: 2) The pod mechanics have been completely remastered in LW2.

Good to hear - if you can say, does that include removing the limit on alien species (where all followers of a pod had to be the same type of alien)?

johnnylump wrote:

deducter wrote:Exciting stuff!

About the multi-mission quest lines, is there one where the resistance investigates the secret behind those damn, juicy Advent burgers?

Some things man was not meant to know.

That_Derpy_muton wrote:1:does the playable aliens mod work with long war 2?
2:Do you guys like the idea of defecting aliens? (don't have to answer)

gimrah wrote:@joinRBS

When you're running a mission with one or two soldiers who are trying to achieve an objective and evac it's more likely that points in aim are going to feel wasted than points in will. There's so much flexibility in the infiltration system that a lot of conventional LW1-thinking starts to break down.

So does will affect infiltration and/or detection distance and stuff like that now?

johnnylump wrote:

fowlJ wrote:

deaconivory wrote: 2) The pod mechanics have been completely remastered in LW2.

Good to hear - if you can say, does that include removing the limit on alien species (where all followers of a pod had to be the same type of alien)?

Yes, that's gone.

deaconivory wrote:

That_Derpy_muton wrote:1:does the playable aliens mod work with long war 2?
2:Do you guys like the idea of defecting aliens? (don't have to answer)

So, I was never able to get it to work, but I never used it in vanilla so I am probably missing something. I know that most of the squadmate mods work, and the Allies Unknown mods work to some degree so I am hopeful that it will work eventually (or I will have time to actually fully test it out on a late game save).

mmCion wrote:One of the things I loved about LW, is that you were expected to not win every mission available. (assault carriers on the first few months, trap missions, etc).

Are you guys going to have a similar approach on LW2, on being expected to not take every mission or even expected to fail some missions?

Thanks again! you guys rock!

That_Derpy_muton wrote:Johnnylump and co. will interrogation be a thing in long war?
Like maybe you interrogate a muton and you get Intel or a advent base location or something like that.

tekronis wrote:

That_Derpy_muton wrote:Johnnylump and co. will interrogation be a thing in long war?
Like maybe you interrogate a muton and you get Intel or a advent base location or something like that.

Would love to know if live capture has become a thing again. That was a pretty anxiety-inducing but satisfying goal in EU/EW/LW1.

gimrah wrote:@JoINrbs

OK thanks. I'm still a little sceptical that's enough but I guess I'll have to play it to see how it pans out.

I mean sure, I always used to take the no-panic perk on my covert operatives but I didn't have to give up movement and HP to get it.

That_Derpy_muton wrote:

deaconivory wrote:

That_Derpy_muton wrote:1:does the playable aliens mod work with long war 2?
2:Do you guys like the idea of defecting aliens? (don't have to answer)

So, I was never able to get it to work, but I never used it in vanilla so I am probably missing something. I know that most of the squadmate mods work, and the Allies Unknown mods work to some degree so I am hopeful that it will work eventually (or I will have time to actually fully test it out on a late game save).

Why what happened that caused it to not work? And what do you mean Vanilla?

Mickey -renraw- wrote: Wait what? please explain i don't get it deaconivory, what kinds of Reinforcement pods are there that don't arrive via Drop Ship? :S