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It feels like things are moving in a good direction. Liberation missions are getting a little bit easier (one or two less alert levels each), while completing a Tower Mission (free radio relay) and the HQ assault (reliable source of corpses and resources, plus doom reduction) give better rewards. Re...

Okay, so, i'm trying a new twist: my second haven is still at Advent Level 2 so i'm going ot try liberating it instead of my first one. My idea is that I shouldn't do any missions except the one that will get me the first liberation mission so, i just ignored an easy light/8day mission to rescue a ...

Jackal wrote:at level 4, any combination of 5 rebels (or the faceless equivalent) working on any three tasks may trigger a Full Retaliation, but you will have the option of preventing it

You'll have the option of preventing it IF you detect the preliminary activity.

If you're about to lose due to the AVATAR project completing, but you haven't liberated a region yet, the game should start flashing the quest objective "Liberate a Region" in pink and yellow so you actually notice it. Also change the wording to "Liberate a Region so you don't lose th...

It seems like one element is missing from that explanation. If any stat swap would increase or decrease a number outside the acceptable range, that swap is ignored and another one taken instead (or until it fails 1000 times, which seems unlikely). This ensures that you only get full value swaps and ...

If there's a reliable way to coax them into retaking regions, then the optimal strategy would actually be liberating to wipe 5 strength off the map, then giving the region back ASAP to make them spread thinner. ADVENT taking a region back wipes out up to 13 rebels (assuming you don't try and rescue...

Is it so? I didn't look at the code, only the ini files but i was under the impression both squadsize and liberation were multiplicative modifiers and thus would counter each other on GP missions.[/quote] From the code, the final number comes from (BaseHours + SquadSizeHours + CovertnessHours + Lib...

Then there are Golden Path missions that are supposed to be hard and requiring large squads (even if currently under 1.2 they can be stealthed with 2 shinobis) and those can receive up to 90% infiltration bonuses from liberation, making 10 men squads more viable on those. This is a misunderstanding...

HQ Assaults are good for teaching you how to kill a lot of enemies without blowing all your consumables early. You're virtually never going to see less than 30 enemies. You may see 50 enemies. But you have quite a few guys and all the time in the world to take enemies out with. As far as infiltrati...

HQ Assaults are good for teaching you how to kill a lot of enemies without blowing all your consumables early. You're virtually never going to see less than 30 enemies. You may see 50 enemies. But you have quite a few guys and all the time in the world to take enemies out with. As far as infiltratio...

Recruitment raids can be brutal but what you describe should not be possible. Aliens get Yellow Alert reactions only during their turn and missions start with an XCom turn so those reactions actually occurred outside of any real turn as far as i understand. If you still have a save available you sh...

"Do as many missions as you are able to do without losing soldiers, and spend all available resources on things that enable you to more safely do more missions. A wide roster is essential. Each mission failed, skipped, or not detected is a miniscule failure, but a failure nonetheless, and they...

well, i decided to pretend i didn't know about trying to stealth a shinobi and ran a crew of gunner sniper ranger tactical grenader we couldn't 'make much progress... took out four cells but were outnumbered by the reinforcements so we bugged out... happy to see the tower is still there i made a mi...

So this means that a miss can be upgraded to a Graze, if i roll a crit? This means that a high crit chance is almost like a reverse Grazing Fire. Crits can only upgrade graze to hit and hit to crit. Dodge can degrade crit to hit, hit to graze and graze to miss. This modification takes place after t...

You're ignoring the part where Battle Scanners allow you to detect Chryssalids and Faceless without your "mobile battle scanner" shinobi getting revealed by them instead. Another point that was largely glossed over in the reddit thread is stealth/guerilla ops. Throwing a couple scanners ou...

Wait. you can adjust where you start.. or do you mean.. sneak to a better ambush spot?? You are concealed at the start of these missions, so yes, sneak. Despite the large bonuses to their detection range that ADVENT get at 0% infiltration, you can often move around the edge of the map to a signific...

I apologize for being a dummy, but what exactly is a 0% mission? Are you saying going in with 0% infiltration? Wouldn't that be total suicide?? Yes, it's going in with 0% infiltration. Not necessarily suicide if you have the ability to deal with masses of enemies quickly, but you can also be clever...

I really don't think going "full intel" with just 4 guys in a region is a very good strategy in all cases. It's good if you have 3 active regions or less. In additional regions, or regions where advent strength has gone too high to achieve good results in missions, you should put up to 5 r...

There are a few strategies you can try. If you're feeling strong, you can just go full Intel and try and fight any Intel raids that come along while picking off Supply Raids and Troop Columns. If you think you can't handle mini-retaliations in the region (the higher the strength the harder they are ...

Sacred Sakura wrote:Hey!
I haven't tried it out but a quick read gave me the impression that this mod:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... vest+icons
is exactly what you're looking for :^)

I use this. Good mod.

Unused engineers can be assigned as haven advisers for supply income, but I do like your idea for when you need soldiers to detect faceless. Seems slightly powerful though, don't want to encourage micromanagement too much. Perhaps 1 supply every 2 days, or 2 supplies every 3 days (per idle engineer...

There appears to be some mechanic that will cause strength build up in regions adjacent to liberated regions. Functionally, ADVENT knows they need a bunch of strength near a liberated region to invade it. I don't believe the mechanics for this build up is well understood yet, or how ADVENT prioriti...

It sounds like you have missed part of the requirements. After you complete the Blacksite, you get the Alien Encryption research. You research that and unlock the ability to build the Shadow Chamber. You build the Shadow Chamber and research the Codex Brain in the shadow Chamber. Then you research E...

This is a pretty good observation really. I took a look at the encounters you can have in Supply Raids and Troop Columns and they are heavily biased against Stun Lancers. I compiled a list of all the different pods you can meet at all force levels in these missions: Supply Raid buckets: OPNx2_Standa...

and while i'm asking...what are the 0% missions i'm supposed to avoid (house rules)?? i've never really done the shinobi jailbreak or data theft missions successfully, so I haven't "cheated" that way.. It's generally agreed that 0% troop columns and supply raids are a little cheap if you ...