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I know rookie difficulty gives +5 aim to all xcom soldiers, but Spark doesn't get this bonus. it's unfair. how about giving +5 aim to Spark on rookie difficulty?

That seems like an oversight. I'd put it as a bug report.

steave wrote:That seems like an oversight. I'd put it as a bug report.

Okay, I will put it in bug report.

Never understood why machine units had such poor hit accuracy to begin with; but its a gameplay balance issue so you can't really go into realistic behaviors.

In regards to the difficulty bonuses though, yeah, that seemed odd to me as well seeing sparks get practically nothing. Seems like more than just an oversight; I don't believe they spent any time on Sparks at all considering the large revamp of xcom soldiers, advent, strategy layer, etc.

Might have to do with them being completely hands off with the DLC content ( had lots of issues with DLC missions until someone spoke up about it ). If they just stuck to the base game ...it makes sense to see things dissimilar.

JoeShmo wrote:Never understood why machine units had such poor hit accuracy to begin with; but its a gameplay balance issue so you can't really go into realistic behaviors.

In regards to the difficulty bonuses though, yeah, that seemed odd to me as well seeing sparks get practically nothing. Seems like more than just an oversight; I don't believe they spent any time on Sparks at all considering the large revamp of xcom soldiers, advent, strategy layer, etc.

Might have to do with them being completely hands off with the DLC content ( had lots of issues with DLC missions until someone spoke up about it ). If they just stuck to the base game ...it makes sense to see things dissimilar.

Heck, there's like 5 different types of MECs for Advent now, and they made LW1 have a ton of MEC classes and customization, even though the mechs came from EW. They could totally do the same thing in LW2.