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- Wed Nov 08, 2017 10:17 am
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: Announcement regarding LW2+WotC
- Replies: 73
- Views: 426558
Re: Announcement regarding LW2+WotC
This is pretty much what I had expected. I'm not sure I would have been happy with LW2 tangled into WotC, what with some differing core mechanics (afaik - didn't try WotC). And I really want to have a look at Terra Invicta. But could you answer, based on your current knowledge, whether there will be...
- Fri Nov 03, 2017 1:10 pm
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: Detecting faceless/rendezvous missions
- Replies: 24
- Views: 50093
Re: Detecting faceless/rendezvous missions
Are you trying to make me look like an idiot? I'm just asking because you make me look like an idiot. Thanks for the reminder though, I remember reading about this but forgot it. There's more to know about Long war 2 than there is to know about Quantum mechanics Umm, no, I didn't mean to try. :) I ...
- Fri Nov 03, 2017 12:26 pm
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: Detecting faceless/rendezvous missions
- Replies: 24
- Views: 50093
Re: Detecting faceless/rendezvous missions
I presume that mission resets after detecting. Or it continues if you have more faceless ? As I understand it, once you get a Rendezvous Mission, all faceless active in that Region will be there. I had a Mission with 3 faceless and I lost miserably. But at least you get the Chance to kill them all ...
- Thu Nov 02, 2017 2:03 pm
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: Scientist in demand
- Replies: 32
- Views: 42885
Re: Scientist in demand
No arguments there. But a lack of consistency makes for pointless gameplay. By that logic every roguelike game has pointless gameplay. Not sure I agree :D Not sure I want my games to play like roguelikes. I do think that too much consistency makes for repetitive gameplay instead, though. The game n...
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 10:53 am
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: Scientist in demand
- Replies: 32
- Views: 42885
Re: Scientist in demand
Right, forgot POIs can yield scientists.Dwarfling wrote:Black Market (after engineer dig), Black Market (after S&G), rescue, rescue, PoI, rescue (Lib2).
But I think this overall qualifies for "dumb luck".
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 8:47 am
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: Scientist in demand
- Replies: 32
- Views: 42885
Re: Scientist in demand
3 of those I understand (2 bought, 1 mission). The rest: dumb luck?Dwarfling wrote:Is this a whine thread? Cuz I thought only Tac1 was allowed to do them.
Check this out: [...]
- Tue Oct 31, 2017 7:29 am
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: Typical numbers of soldiers may/june
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8641
Re: Typical numbers of soldiers may/june
Okay, so my 42 soldiers on June 10th actually aren't bad (Commander difficulty). Thanks.
- Sat Oct 28, 2017 9:57 pm
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: Typical numbers of soldiers may/june
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8641
Typical numbers of soldiers may/june
How many soldiers, squaddie upwards, do you usually have around the end of may/beginning of june? Including difficulty level, if possible. Because at my current go, I can't shake the feeling that I used to have a lot more guys doing missions at this point. Between 5 guys in AWC/GTS, 5 guys as adviso...
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 1:07 pm
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: Mimimi moments, or no regrets when reloading a save
- Replies: 81
- Views: 112240
Re: Mimimi moments, or no regrets when reloading a save
I just reloaded to a save 3 in-game hours ago in the strategy layer because I forgot to set a region back to full intel. Fortunately there was no mission inbetween. I'm becoming obsessive with not missing a day of optimised intel on the strategy layer. Sounds unhealthy, but I can relate. I restarte...
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 8:31 am
- Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
- Topic: Can we surround alien/advent strategically?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9418
Re: Can we surround alien/advent strategically?
You might be intetested in this thread, as it was motivated by an isolated region and goes into some details on the matter:
http://pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/vi ... 16&t=26463
http://pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/vi ... 16&t=26463
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 8:13 am
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: First death, incredibly soured.
- Replies: 68
- Views: 98204
Re: First death, incredibly soured.
What? You can upgrade the Sawn-off. You can, but only to Mag Shorty, which requires Advanced Coil according to Ufopaedia. Which leaves you hanging from early midgame to late midgame. When your guys use mag weapons, a rifle shot does the same damage as a one-barrel shotgun, and a ranger double-shot ...
- Sun Oct 22, 2017 12:57 pm
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: First death, incredibly soured.
- Replies: 68
- Views: 98204
Re: First death, incredibly soured.
It doesn't take forever if you take out the scaling by soldier level on retrain times. Simple INI tweak though I don't remember where atm. If anyone's interested, I can try to find the parameter once I'm back home.
- Sat Oct 21, 2017 3:51 pm
- Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
- Topic: Psionics - which skills to pick in what order?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 31451
Re: Psionics - which skills to pick in what order?
Thanks. Will see how to put the info to use once I hit Psionics on my current campaign.
- Sat Oct 21, 2017 3:48 pm
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: How do you plan/follow your new campaigns?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 28357
Re: How do you plan/follow your new campaigns?
@Psieye: Ah, sorry, didn't mean to be blunt. No apologies necessary. I find counting available missions per region too much hassle for me - one reason why I keep playing Commander instead of trying my hand on Legendary. That said, I really should do some of the stuff, like keeping track of liberatio...
- Sat Oct 21, 2017 3:45 pm
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: Hunter's instinct/do enemies shot in OW count as flanked?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11980
Re: Hunter's instinct/do enemies shot in OW count as flanked?
The overwatch shot against a coverable enemy is a flank shot at the most cases. If you have Hunter`s Instinct, you will got the flank damage. I have tested this before. In additional, you will have the flank crit chance(+40%) against the coverable enemy on overwatch. However, you can`t crit them be...
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 1:13 pm
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: How do you plan/follow your new campaigns?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 28357
Re: How do you plan/follow your new campaigns?
Next campaign I'm going to try a psi rush. I tried and failed horribly in 1.2 but it's changed a lot. I still think it will be suboptimal but only 1 way to find out... Tried a hybrid approach, slotting Psi in where I usually do first basic research. But between the power requirements (need Resistan...
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 10:37 am
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: How do you plan/follow your new campaigns?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 28357
Re: How do you plan/follow your new campaigns?
For organising, do it the old fashioned way: write things down. LW2 doesn't spoonfeed you on in-depth mechanics, you should similarly not expect it to do your bookkeeping for you either. I don't. I was asking for strategies, for how to write it down, alternatively for tools like prepared excel shee...
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 7:50 am
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: How do you plan/follow your new campaigns?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 28357
Re: How do you plan/follow your new campaigns?
I agree to Dwarfling on almost everything, but a few details (playing on Commander): 1. I advertise mag rush - if you can deal with 2 weeks more on ballistics, you can get a head start on both research (skipping the laser techs until later), firepower (earlier mag and incendiaries) and resources (no...
- Thu Oct 19, 2017 12:46 pm
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: Hunter's instinct/do enemies shot in OW count as flanked?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11980
Hunter's instinct/do enemies shot in OW count as flanked?
I rolled several OW perks on a Shinobi and need to decide whether to give him hunter's instinct. Does anyone know whether shots during OW on an enemy not in cover count as flanked for the purpose of hunter's instinct?
- Tue Oct 17, 2017 7:39 am
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: First death, incredibly soured.
- Replies: 68
- Views: 98204
Re: First death, incredibly soured.
Frankly, I've come to despise Gunners and suppression. I have yet to have suppression fire actually hit the enemy, the debuff alone never seems enough to prevent enemy weapon's fire, and Advent just runs it willy nilly and never takes punishment for it anyway. I only had that problem at the very st...
- Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:30 pm
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: First death, incredibly soured.
- Replies: 68
- Views: 98204
Re: First death, incredibly soured.
IMO some of the discussion is getting a little overcautious in terms of defence. The way I actually play:[...] Which is almost exactly how I play. But with this gameplay, accidents like OP described do happen and I wouldn't generally count this towards suboptimal play. Though I usually double up on...
- Mon Oct 16, 2017 7:55 am
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: First death, incredibly soured.
- Replies: 68
- Views: 98204
Re: First death, incredibly soured.
Stop trying to debuff their aim and buff your def instead. There's a reason why I value smoke grenades over Sting flashbangs. 45 (high cover) + 20 (smoke) + 20 (Aid Protocol) ="anyone who doesn't have OVER 85 aim just gives up". You know you've succeeded when they just stand still and OW ...
- Thu Oct 12, 2017 5:17 pm
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: Trouble identifying enemies from sound
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19811
Re: Trouble identifying enemies from sound
Thanks guys. The distinguishing thing is usually not that much of an issue. Maybe I just need to pay more attention. I play with regular stereo headphones, and what I do to tell the direction they're coming is that just as the sound is playing, I swivel the camera (Q or E) towards the direction I'm ...
- Thu Oct 12, 2017 8:22 am
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: Trouble identifying enemies from sound
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19811
Re: Trouble identifying enemies from sound
Not according to the doctors. I do have trouble distinguishing though.Dwarfling wrote:Are you hearing impaired?
I've been playing for a long while though, currently on my 9th playthrough iirc. Haven't picked this skill up though.
Is it possible to identify the alien's position or direction by the sounds?
- Wed Oct 11, 2017 10:10 am
- Forum: Long War 2
- Topic: 1.5 Legend Campaign
- Replies: 5
- Views: 15779
Re: 1.5 Legend Campaign
Out of curiosity: how does DfA work on a Ranger?