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While I do not resort to ambushing reinforcements, as I have plenty of missions as it is on my hands, removing kill XP altogether is kind of a double-edged blade. A better alternative is to find a way to may the drop point different for each group, as that is the main issue - players can fairly easi...

Hey sadh , no worries! Your comment was fine, there was no misplaced bravado in it. I just wanted to point out that you should not rest on your laurels and think you are doing fine. Long War 1 and 2 in general are fairly unforgiving, so you should aim to be at least a week in preparations ahead of t...

It seems there are a few points where you can improve considerably : - Taking missions with less than 7,5 days infiltration time. Be aware that the first liberation mission is almost always Free VIP and has a fairly low infiltration time (around 4-5 days). So it is possible that you have been consci...

Quite right, but you need to add the categories themselves to each weapon.

Anyways, I will try it out in game. If it is working as intended some perks will have a new twist to them.

Now you are tempting me to try it out.

That code certainly did not exist in any functional form in the original game, so it will be interesting to check if Pavonis managed to add a sub-system of weapon types.

There is a new game that might pique your interest. It essentially has Factions which grant unique bonuses and technologies which you will be able to combine apparently.

No skill requires a specific type of weapon. There is no variable in the game code for semi-auto or full-auto weapons as far as I know. Rapid fire works with both rifles and shotguns, and the latter are definitely not burst weapons. If you can assign Rapid Fire, Chain shot or any other multishot ski...

At higher difficulties those enemies appear sooner and a lot more often though. So a possible solution would be just to up the difficulty.

The balance in Long War 2 seems to be geared around Commander and Legendary.

@Sines No class has a specific-only weapon skills. There are primary weapon-only skill and the text adapts to the class in question. For example if you have Serial on an Assault, it will say "Kills only made with a shotgun." @Doctor Sticks - Not only that, your weapons also have squadsight...

Be advised that the main reason for the existence of that combo seems to be the higher numbers and earlier introduction of Chryssalids.

So you might want to have a few Kensai soldiers at hand by that time.

That build was too unbalanced, you applied two heavy debuffs on multiple enemies (with Danger Zone) and a good buff for your troops ( thanks to Holotargeting). And you could do it for 3 turns in a row, with some extra mags. Seeing that reloading is just a single action in Xcom 2 and that you have ar...

Well, one of the ways Long War 1 and Long War 2 make the war seem longer is by removing as much as possible all scripted/ weighted encounters. Thus you are not guaranteed to get what you need and will be playing longer to obtain it. Be advised this was not stated anywhere by Pavonis in the last coup...

I held off replying to this post for a couple of days, just to get a better grip on the issue at hand. To be frank, there is no issue though. Trying to balance a whole class just because one of the ways to play it falls behind the curve on a certain difficulty level will be a nightmare. At Commander...

I am still at the beginning of April and had a total of 3 rescue missions, all of them for Engineers. I then decided not to push my luck with the RNG and bought 2 scientists (1 in March, 1 in April). Everything is progressing smoothly now. :) The Black Market is there to help you remedy any weird rn...

Well, you can still adjust your missions to your needs. As pointed above, I did my second Supply raid at 20% Infiltration and the mission showed Moderate-Heavy presence. And I did get 2 Stun Lancers from that mission at the beginning of April (!). If you do some of the corpse retrieval missions at l...

Corpse retrieval works "per mission" and not "per unit". So any mission where you can retrieve corpses does not have reinforcements. Otherwise you would be able to get hundreds of corpses by farming them. Hence why there are only a few mission types where you can get the corpses ...

@ seananigans - You are overlooking Reinforcements. Missions where you can collect loot and cadavers do not have Reinforcements turned on, for a good reason. It will be almost impossible to reconcile both mechanics - having more collect missions and still viable Reinforcements that could not be farm...

Hey aceone, glad to be of service. :) From a gameplay point of view aliens always had a way to sneak free or trick shots, since 1994. I still remember those Blaster bombs coming your away from the other side of the map with no line of sight whatsoever. Or just aliens having a longer line of sight an...

Taken from From XcomLW_Overhaul.ini ; Offensive actions - Undamaged units in yellow alert that activate on their turn will be allowed ; these actions. +OffensiveReflexAbilities=StandardShot +OffensiveReflexAbilities=Overwatch +OffensiveReflexAbilities=SniperRifleOverwatch +OffensiveReflexAbilities=L...

If you haven't already, have a look at the Stop Wasting my time mod. It hastens any fluff animations and cinematics.

I would also suggest to turn off completely the cinematic camera just to see how it goes for you.

Well, technically speaking any mod should at least start on a "modified" version of XCOM 1 or XCOM 2, but its stability is not guaranteed. As I know Johnny does not condone any "modification" discussions on Long War forums, I will leave it at that. @Hasan - if you do indeed run p...

It would help if you can provide a list of mods you would like to install along Long War 2. Please also let us know if you are using the Steam Workshop version or the Nexus one. If it is the latter, check where exactly you have placed the LW_Overhaul main folder (the directory path). Also you can de...

Concerning Shen's Last Gift, equipping everyone with Armor Piercing rounds makes the mission a cakewalk. You have to also keep in mind that not everyone owns all of the DLC so it is not that too high of a priority to try and improve upon them at the moment. If anything, we need a way to unlock more ...

By going towards 200% infiltration two main things happen: -The Evac timer gets better. In 1.3 the lowest it can get is 2 turns I think. - Enemies may be downgraded. For example later in the campaign instead of facing Mutons you might face Vipers instead. At the start though there is nothing lower t...

Try to simply reinstall the mod - unsubscribe, then subscribe again. If something is bugged with your game files, going back to older version might cause other bugs to happen.