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by mustangdood
Fri Feb 03, 2017 7:09 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: New and Improved Dark Events Thread
Replies: 111
Views: 134199

Re: New and Improved Dark Events Thread

This is just my brief 2 cents about why people seems to be reacting much more negatively to TDEs than the Navigator system. In general, one of the things people react most negatively to in a game is the illusion of agency. They would rather never have a choice in the first place than to have that c...
by mustangdood
Thu Feb 02, 2017 2:13 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: New and Improved Dark Events Thread
Replies: 111
Views: 134199

Re: New and Improved Dark Events Thread

There are two over-arching points. 1. Permanent Dark Events are not fun. They remove fun. 2. Permanent Dark Events make you hurry and rush elements of the game. The opposite of a Long War. I would suggest that people try to solve for these two things in the solutions they present, or the root cause ...
by mustangdood
Wed Feb 01, 2017 11:12 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Dark Events
Replies: 57
Views: 70198

Re: Dark Events

You're childish opinions add nothing to the discussion of balance and alternate solutions, which were encouraged. If you're only way of dealing with something that isn't perfect is to take your ball and go home, you should go back to just listening. This is the 2nd time you have called someone that...
by mustangdood
Wed Feb 01, 2017 10:00 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat
Replies: 37
Views: 55790

Re: Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat

Thuraash wrote:And I know you're saying the game never told you that you're on a clock.
Correct. An easy fix, as was pointed out a number of times. No real effort required.
by mustangdood
Wed Feb 01, 2017 9:47 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Dark Events
Replies: 57
Views: 70198

Re: Dark Events

Holy crap calm down, this is a mod not the constitution, I've seen less backlash to people besmirching and crapping all over Geneva conventions etc than what some of you guys are acting like. Not everything on LW2 is implacable and perfect and the great thing about pavonis is that they are in here ...
by mustangdood
Wed Feb 01, 2017 5:39 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat
Replies: 37
Views: 55790

Re: Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat

@Severian You are correct in your assumption. :) Higher ADVENT activity in a region means more missions. More missions means higher chance of getting a liberation one. Once you get the first, you will receive the next few quite fast. Thus if you you have low activity in all but one or two regions, ...
by mustangdood
Wed Feb 01, 2017 5:13 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat
Replies: 37
Views: 55790

Re: Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat

This issue could be solved in a dozen ways, ranging from effortless to complex. A simple change in verbiage would let the player know they have to press forward or the game could end. The trap here is to assume the user intuitively knows something that is not explicit. If you expect players to play ...
by mustangdood
Wed Feb 01, 2017 5:01 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Dark Events
Replies: 57
Views: 70198

Re: Dark Events

My biggest issue at this point, if I understand the system correctly, is the random nature of the missions that cause the Dark Events. If these can spawn and complete in a region that you haven't contacted yet, effectively giving you no opportunity to counter them, then this creates a balancing iss...
by mustangdood
Wed Feb 01, 2017 1:48 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Dark Events
Replies: 57
Views: 70198

Re: Dark Events

Agreed, permanent dark events don't add difficulty, they just eventually scale the game to the point of impossibility. I just killed an Alien Ruler faster than I could kill a gosh damn advent trooper just because I want an ACTUAL long war mod, not a fricken rush to beat the game in 8 months mod. Ju...
by mustangdood
Wed Feb 01, 2017 1:43 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Dark Events
Replies: 57
Views: 70198

Re: Dark Events

Permanent Dark Events is nothing short of poor and lazy design. Forcing an end to the game due to lazy mechanics is abhorrent game design. You, sir, are an idiot. "I disagree with this design choice" does not, in any way, equal "This is poor and lazy design". You want people to ...
by mustangdood
Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:23 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Dark Events
Replies: 57
Views: 70198

Re: Dark Events

I'm having a hard time with Dark Events myself and its really destroying my enjoyment. Less than 5 months in and my Dark Events looked like this: http://imgur.com/a/WLAc2 +2 bonus health, +1 damage, +1 armor/resistance to explosions, defensive increases and a bunch of other annoying talents. I woul...
by mustangdood
Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:04 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat
Replies: 37
Views: 55790

Re: Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat

The Doom counter is still there, you just need to work a bit to be able to see it. Like noted above, once you liberate the first region, it will become available. If you haven't liberated any regions and have played at least 6 months in-game, something is not quite right there. :) If you want to co...
by mustangdood
Tue Jan 31, 2017 8:40 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat
Replies: 37
Views: 55790

Re: Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat

Depending on your difficulty, you had roughly 6-7 months to fulfill an objective that was presented to you on Day 1. Game isn't going to forgive that. You can't seem to see the forest through the trees. The issue is that you have no warning that the end is next turn. Sure, there is a list of object...
by mustangdood
Tue Jan 31, 2017 6:29 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Why I don't like Timers (and a suggestion)
Replies: 14
Views: 20589

Re: Why I don't like Timers (and a suggestion)

Your % infiltration should give you bonus turns, but never reduce turns. You should not use a turn while the entire squad is concealed. The Intervention skill is actually a great idea, but the cost is too high to be practically used until end game. Why not just remove the intel cost, and then you ha...
by mustangdood
Tue Jan 31, 2017 6:23 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat
Replies: 37
Views: 55790

Re: Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat

Depending on your difficulty, you had roughly 6-7 months to fulfill an objective that was presented to you on Day 1. Game isn't going to forgive that. You can't seem to see the forest through the trees. The issue is that you have no warning that the end is next turn. Sure, there is a list of object...
by mustangdood
Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:06 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Dark Events
Replies: 57
Views: 70198

Re: Dark Events

Maybe the order that some DE's take place can be troubling (like in my case, an UFO Hunt on May/June was brutal and cost me 10 soldiers), but keeping DE's permanent is a nice way to keep you from steamrolling the AI in mid/end game, like in LW1 for instance. If you can power-up your soldiers foreve...
by mustangdood
Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:54 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat
Replies: 37
Views: 55790

Re: Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat

Game suddenly ends in poor design...

For anyone else reading this, you can edit the .ini and change the doom max counter from 20 to something more reasonable. This will circumvent this.
by mustangdood
Tue Jan 31, 2017 1:36 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Dark Events
Replies: 57
Views: 70198

Re: Dark Events

Permanent Dark Events is nothing short of poor and lazy design. Forcing an end to the game due to lazy mechanics is abhorrent game design. You do realize there were mods with permanent DE long before LW2 don't you? And some of them were rather brutal. This is the weakest argument you could ever mak...
by mustangdood
Tue Jan 31, 2017 12:51 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Dark Events
Replies: 57
Views: 70198

Re: Dark Events

Permanent Dark Events is nothing short of poor and lazy design. Forcing an end to the game due to lazy mechanics is abhorrent game design. Player skill has nothing to do with this. Honestly, as much as this Mod adds to the game, it's things like this that really highlight how the people behind this ...
by mustangdood
Mon Jan 30, 2017 2:00 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Bug Reports
Topic: No pickup bleeding out.
Replies: 6
Views: 11708

Re: No pickup bleeding out.

I have also had this happen a few times.

Once, I was able to stand on top of where the body was, instead of adjacent to it, and was able to pick it up.
by mustangdood
Mon Jan 30, 2017 1:58 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat
Replies: 37
Views: 55790

Game Suddenly Ends in Defeat

A cutscene pops up, and then the game suddenly ends in defeat. You iterate through the stats screens, and are then returned to the main menu. Super not cool! I'm pretty confident this is a bug, and isn't supposed to happen. I have *barely* skipped any optional missions, and only failed maybe 2 missi...