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I'm just going to toss out reinforcement / pod related material. All found in Mods > LW_Overhaul > Config XComLW_Overhaul.ini +DISABLE_REINFORCEMENT_FLARES ( Does as described. Makes it harder to see drop locations ) +SOUND_RANGE_DIFFICULTY_MODIFIER ( Affects Advent's range in being able to detect w...

I think what most people ( and ideally Johnny ) are fantasizing their class as Snake Eyes from G.I. Joe ( since LW2 is basically a culmination of all the Guerilla cliches in popular entertainment, like Gunner having a knife because of a character in the movie Predator ). And when people think of Sna...

This does rather break balance though, as well as leading to "unfair" gameplay quirks. Imagine if your soldier was using reaction fire to an advent running in front of you, but because you shot at it, the advent then reaction fired at you....killing you. While merely doing a move-to action...

Not seeing the issue in a realistic manner. Someone who is "hunkered down" has a much lower profile than someone standing upright, which means there is less space to make contact during an attempted action. "He ducked" is a pretty common occurrence in a fight, and there have been...

Two 100% shots missed on flanked Mutons out of cover that was destroyed in the same turn; perhaps the game still thought they had cover for the purposes of Iron Curtain? v1.1; no mods have been installed. I believe it was stated that aim% displays were incorrect because of crit chance / grazing sho...

It's like the death of game design, feature creep, where you're wanting to add so much to your game to make it "awesome" that you either never end up releasing, release in a poor balanced / buggy state, or it changes the base game so invariably that it's not enjoyable anymore. I think tha...

This is the really big issue for me. Reinforcements are not too bad to handle if you're not already engaged, and they've been fixed to not fire upon arriving. But pods running in on you during a fight is where I'm running into the most problems. People complain about big maps where you have to keep...

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 ...

We already have pods so closely packed together that they can patrol into you while you're already under fire. That was the bad luck mechanic in LW1, and it did it's job well. Now we have that, plus free, full squad flanks on top of it. The total of the two is just too much of a coin flip at presen...

Sometimes it feels like Advent is growing in too many dimensions at once as the game progresses. Advent strength grows globally and locally, increasing the number of enemies on missions, having stronger/faster reinforcements and generating more retaliation missions. Stronger enemies and new version...

I'm not going to mess with it further for 1.2, but kicking around removing the corpse requirement and making it give one armor for 1.3. Five armor from a thing is pretty close to breaking the combat system. Why not just give it shielding instead? Or temporary health increase ( that is then lost aft...

I'm not on the dev team, so you don't have to worry about my opinion influencing design. :) I was a tester for LW1. What I'm saying is, and I saw this a lot in LW1, is that people tend to approach Long War as "FiraxiCOM with extra stuff". They try to use the same tactics, try to abuse the...

I never understood why the game allows for infinite weapons, armor, grenades, ammo, etc. But stims? No..that needed a finite quantity. I also never understood the corpse requirement ( or heavy material cost ) on something that didn't become "infinite" afterwards. As people have said..getti...

But if they weren't endless, you could win without evac. You are not supposed to be able to win without evac. You're enemy combatants, why would they not drop the hammer on you just because you killed two squads of troops? They have an endless clone army, they have literally no reason not to use ov...

I think people are forgetting the point of the OP's post: "Veteran difficulty Extremely Light / Normal readiness" There's a distinct culture around LW that it needs to be hard as balls, we get that, but people need to also remember that there are difficulty settings for a reason. Even if ...

I think you're going to just end up with the same wonky experience between early , mid , late game as in the past. So with that in mind, id echo the responses of the above in that you just start out with rookie, and increase / decrease the difficulty as you go to fit how comfortable / restrained you...

I think people are forgetting the point of the OP's post: "Veteran difficulty Extremely Light / Normal readiness" There's a distinct culture around LW that it needs to be hard as balls, we get that, but people need to also remember that there are difficulty settings for a reason. Even if L...