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by AegixDrakan
Thu Mar 16, 2017 2:09 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: So 0%/low% supply raids are getting nerfed....
Replies: 29
Views: 43366

Re: So 0%/low% supply raids are getting nerfed....

What concerns me about the nerf is that it's in a way where if I desperately need to stop the increase of advent strength, I won't be able to stop it. :s

I ran a 5% raid a little while back to keep strength at 2 in April so I could raid the HQ with less worry.
by AegixDrakan
Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:37 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How are people liberating regions so fast?
Replies: 45
Views: 88019

Re: How are people liberating regions so fast?

Just because you can liberate regions quickly in Long War 2 doesn't mean you have to. It took me until about July last time on Veteran to even start working on liberation, and by that point, enemy troops types were ramping up REALLY fast and region strength was escalating way too quick. My primary ...
by AegixDrakan
Fri Mar 10, 2017 5:39 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How are people liberating regions so fast?
Replies: 45
Views: 88019

Re: How are people liberating regions so fast?

:o April 1st, only like 2 days away from a 200% network tower. Laser weapons 1 is 10 days away. Region is still at STR 1. ...Holy cow. If you really move hardcore on the liberation missions and focus on avoiding any and all fights you don't critically need, then yeah, you CAN push liberation along r...
by AegixDrakan
Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:22 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How does it work the Advent Strength?
Replies: 15
Views: 24003

Re: How does it work the Advent Strength?

Jacke wrote:If you go so far as to liberate all Earth zones, all of them get a simultaneous invasion by massive ADVENT forces.
:o Woooooow. That's insane.
by AegixDrakan
Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:25 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How are people liberating regions so fast?
Replies: 45
Views: 88019

Re: How are people liberating regions so fast?

Holy cow. I JUST had my first supply drop like 4 days ago, and I just whacked a VIP for LIB 3. If my memory serves, the network tower is ALREADY OPEN. 0_o If you get lucky with a lead right away and really boogie on the essentials and commit to stealth, you really CAN get super far really fast. :o I...
by AegixDrakan
Tue Mar 07, 2017 8:43 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How are people liberating regions so fast?
Replies: 45
Views: 88019

Re: How are people liberating regions so fast?

The earlier you do the mission the easier enemies you'll find. So if you manage to do the Network Tower by late April or early May, the worst you'll find there are snakes and a MEC. This is what I'm aiming for. I've got the Defector mission about to roll out and I'm not even at my first supply drop...
by AegixDrakan
Mon Mar 06, 2017 4:38 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How are people liberating regions so fast?
Replies: 45
Views: 88019

Re: How are people liberating regions so fast?

Did a bunch of stealth missions last night on my second run. Got a good head start so far. No casualties yet. In fact, I'm really enjoying Shinobi/Specialist for those hacking missions. I immediately bought a scientist and an engineer from the Black Market, I have the AWC imminent (3 days), and I ju...
by AegixDrakan
Sun Mar 05, 2017 9:07 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How are people liberating regions so fast?
Replies: 45
Views: 88019

Re: How are people liberating regions so fast?

The big question I have for you is: how many full-stealth missions are you running? During my early game for my current playthrough, I had tons of two man stealth missions going on in the first couple months. Oh. Yeah, I ran a bunch of stealth missions (Lullaby squad was particularly lucky/consiste...
by AegixDrakan
Sun Mar 05, 2017 8:22 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How are people liberating regions so fast?
Replies: 45
Views: 88019

Re: How are people liberating regions so fast?

Also, the HQ mission shouldn't be that hard. If you're managing the 0% supply raids, then you should have no problem with HQ missions. Never tried a 0% supply raid. Depending on Advent strength I had serious issues (Like, "We need to Evac" serious) with some of them when they were just at...
by AegixDrakan
Sun Mar 05, 2017 6:01 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How are people liberating regions so fast?
Replies: 45
Views: 88019

Re: How are people liberating regions so fast?

I don't usually care about weapons/armor all that much, since it's kind of a pushover at force level 3 if you take your time and scout things well. I'm guessing that if you do it in the first few months, Advent's forces are weaker and you don't end up facing any Heavy Mecs and stuff during those mi...
by AegixDrakan
Sun Mar 05, 2017 4:59 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How are people liberating regions so fast?
Replies: 45
Views: 88019

How are people liberating regions so fast?

Ok, so I just had my first game over. I lagged a lot at the start, and then a ton of problems happened, and I only liberated my first region in November. On mostly Rookie (Started in Veteran, then dropped down because I didn't like the no-flare-reinforcements) Cue Doom Tracker filling up completely ...
by AegixDrakan
Wed Mar 01, 2017 3:20 am
Forum: Resolved Bug Reports
Topic: Captured Soldier returns, has no weapon in mission.
Replies: 1
Views: 4812

Captured Soldier returns, has no weapon in mission.

Short Description: A soldier left behind during the Avenger Defense Mission re-appeared in pre-mission selection of soldiers. On deploying her on a new mission, she has no weapon or action points. She is not in the active roster of soldiers at all. 1) The version of Long War you are playing. Version...
by AegixDrakan
Tue Feb 28, 2017 7:47 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Thanks for patch 1.2!
Replies: 24
Views: 28890

Re: Thanks for patch 1.2!

The info box before every mission is VERY VERY welcome, thank you. :D
by AegixDrakan
Mon Feb 27, 2017 8:28 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: What determines when Faceless appear on a regular mission?
Replies: 17
Views: 20602

Re: What determines when Faceless appear on a regular mission?

I've gone on a mission before, in a city center, that I'm pretty sure was some kind of faceless "trap". I think it was 9 or 10 civilians turned into goop monsters while I was trying to work my way to the objective, and I'm pretty sure this was *before* I got the dark event that puts facel...
by AegixDrakan
Thu Feb 23, 2017 9:02 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Lost my Campaign - No idea why
Replies: 47
Views: 52227

Re: Lost my Campaign - No idea why

my question would be: all those missions and he wasn't given the chance to liberate a haven? is that due to bad luck? Can totally happen. I was in one region for like 3 months doing leads before I FINALLY got the liberation chain going. By the time I was able to attack the network tower the region ...
by AegixDrakan
Wed Feb 22, 2017 4:51 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Holy smokes, that first tower mission?!!!
Replies: 32
Views: 40275

Re: Holy smokes, that first tower mission?!!!

That sounds wonky for Rookie, August, Adv Str 4. I'm on Veteran and either late Aug or early Sep, and just now am seeing my first Archons. Either something you did made them ramp the force level way up, or you have extra mods messing with it somehow? Beyond the Archon, even all the MECs and such so...
by AegixDrakan
Wed Feb 22, 2017 3:42 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Holy smokes, that first tower mission?!!!
Replies: 32
Views: 40275

Re: Holy smokes, that first tower mission?!!!

*Takes notes* I just got WIPED on this mission. Apparently, if the region is strength 4, and the enemy force is "Light", this means they can have 4 heavy mechs, 2 regular ones, a muton and two sectoids AND a full pod of soldiers with an archon. x_X With a turret watching the safest possibl...
by AegixDrakan
Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:31 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Double Biggest Booms perk?
Replies: 5
Views: 8962

Re: Double Biggest Booms perk?

I think you must have an older version of Commander's Choice installed and used it to change your soldier to Grenadier as a Squaddie. Ohhhh, I get what happened, then. I didn't use the Commander's Choice mod, actually. This character was in my first batch of characters and the person she's named af...
by AegixDrakan
Wed Feb 15, 2017 8:47 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Thanks for long war 2
Replies: 10
Views: 15388

Re: Thanks for long war 2

I 'm really enjoying it too. XCOM 2 was already fantastic, but Long War 2 adds a lot more layers of things to worry about, and makes stealthy runs actually plausible. I'm positive I'm going to lose this run (I'm in July and JUST got my first officers and laser weapons and I still haven't liberated a...
by AegixDrakan
Wed Feb 15, 2017 8:30 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Double Biggest Booms perk?
Replies: 5
Views: 8962

Double Biggest Booms perk?

Soo...One of my grenadiers got the Biggest Booms perk from the AWC.

She can learn it naturally too.

...What happens if I double up on it? 100% crit on grenades? increased crit damage? It rolls 50% for crit twice?
by AegixDrakan
Wed Feb 15, 2017 5:42 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Convoy protection doesn't give corpses?
Replies: 5
Views: 9168

Convoy protection doesn't give corpses?

So I just had my first supply convoy protection mission and a lot of things went wrong that really don't feel like they should have. First, despite the mission not needing evac, and my slaughtering a small army of enemies, no corpses were brought in. Is this normal? No one packed up even a few of th...
by AegixDrakan
Wed Feb 15, 2017 2:29 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: ;_: My Intel rebels are incompetents.
Replies: 7
Views: 13909

Re: ;_: My Intel rebels are incompetents.

Devon_v wrote:Everyone knows intelligence operatives play Galaga at work, not Pokémon.
Like this? XD
https://youtu.be/t4Fy6AUMv8E

Well, alright, at least it involves killing aliens, it's MARGINALLY productive. :D
by AegixDrakan
Tue Feb 14, 2017 8:36 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Hardest part of haven defense is finding civs
Replies: 7
Views: 10994

Re: Hardest part of haven defense is finding civs

Only a couple Faceless will show themselves in a Haven defense mission as I understand it. Any others will keep their disguise. Battle Scanners may be able to fix that problem, but it's hard to tell. :o So if I had my first retaliation and saved all 15 rebels and none of them popped a disguise, the...
by AegixDrakan
Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:50 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: ;_: My Intel rebels are incompetents.
Replies: 7
Views: 13909

;_: My Intel rebels are incompetents.

"Commander! We have a supply raid possible!" Great, I was in need of some enemy corpses and resources! I've been out of corpses for like 2 months solid! I haven't had a non-evac mission in foreve- "It expires in a day and 15 hours sir!" ...Yeah, no that's not going to happen. Pas...
by AegixDrakan
Sat Feb 04, 2017 10:08 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: How do you properly "stealth" the whole mission?
Replies: 14
Views: 18522

Re: How do you properly "stealth" the whole mission?

The Tactical Dark Events never expire. They're how the aliens tech up against you. You have to try to detect and prevent them beforehand. As far as I know, they can only attempt each one once, so if you stop it, that upgrade will never happen. Some of them have multiple events however, like there a...