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Steelflame wrote:Not sure why you consider field medic a bad pick...

Field Medic is the +2 medkit charges perk (more valuable if you have Medical Protocol to turn them into ranged heals, but mediocre otherwise), which competes with Ever Vigilant and Airdrop. You're thinking of Field Surgeon.

Very thorough explanation of the graze banding..but i can't say i understand it yet. Even the illustration isn't really doing it for me...but i get the general idea. However, not sure what would happen if i adjusted the slider. The general principal is simple: decrease it and you get fewer grazes (...

One thing that complicates this quite a bit is that there's quite a lot of overlap between certain class roles. Sharpshooters, support Grenadiers, flame Technicals, stealth Shinobi, and hacker or medic Specialists are all pretty much irreplaceable in their specialty, but there are a bunch of other n...

1. How do you know if a mission is Lib1? It seems to me that every hack mission has "Find a Lead" as an objective Lib1 (and UFOs) have 'find a lead' as an objective but don't list any rewards other than intel. (In particular, any mission with a POI as a reward is not Lib1). 2. How do I ke...

Is combatives a roll against the dodge stat? If so, does that mean you only need a 10-dodge soldier to guarantee combatives will proc? Missing from this thread is a discussion of exactly what the mechanic is and how combatives procs. It seems like everyone is assuming that it's a simple % roll (so ...

1. Not necessarily. Not all non-faceless rebels will appear on a Rendezvous mission (or other COIN missions). But of course faceless rebels will never appear there. 2. Again, not necessarily. 3. If you launch the mission then evac, the faceless rebel (one that appears on the mission) will vanish an...

If they do *not* turn into goop monsters, ...they'll still vanish. As long as you launch the mission at all, affected faceless will go away even if you evac immediately. XWynns' youtube campaign suggests this is false. He got a mission with two disguised faceless, one of whom he activated, and ende...

I think a big part of the problem lies with how binary the stealth mechanic is right now. A concealed Covert/Ghostwalker/SMG Shinobi can practically pin a 'Kick Me' sign on Advent's back without being noticed, but if an enemy spots an unconcealed civilian VIP for even a split second at the extreme e...

The issue is that, unless you for some reason don't want rewards , specialists are mandatory on ~all missions. In fact, with the class and mission design as is right now, I'd be pretty comfortable in stating that a team full of specialists is the most sure-fire approach to any mission, with no stra...

DEs are called COINResearch and COINOps in XComLWActivities.ini I know this to be true because I can use the LWSpawnActivity console command, and when I enter either COINOps or COINResearch, a new item gets added to my list of pending DEs. Maybe that will help you find more details about how it all...

Remember that is a minimum that applies to everyone , including aliens. Definitely something to keep in mind, yeah. On the other hand, Lightning Reflexes explicitly ignores it (config is 2-3 lines down in the same file), so you can still bait out the overwatch shots with that, and all the other OW-...

Just a heads-up for anyone who this is bothering - particularly those who don't want to have to use a PCS slot for the patch - XcomLW_SoldierSkills.ini contains this line: REQUIRED_TO_HIT_FOR_OVERWATCH=1 ; any to-hit chance below this won't trigger overwatch Assuming that it works as advertised, cha...

snip If that came across as confrontational, I apologize; it wasn't meant to be. Most of your advice is spot on, and I expect that the OP will find it very useful. I wasn't trying to present a full answer to the OP's problem - you've covered that nicely - just to expand on one point that I felt you...

[T]he only purpose of the sharpshooter is to force pods from far away to walk into your overwatch trap. It's great if you can take out like a rocketeer or other squishy target from squadsight, but after that first shot connects on a far away pod your sniper will be hard pressed to hit them as they ...

I'm pretty sure the +75% for the Intel Boost is multiplied, not added - that is, if you have 10% infiltration progress and use the boost, you'll get 10% x 1.75 = 17.5%, not 10% + 75% = 85%. So your target for 200% after the boost should be 115% (115 x 1.75 = 201.25), not 125% (125 x 1.75 = 218.75, s...