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I've had a lot of success with bladenobis in GOps. Blademaster or lone wolf at lcpl makes it reliable early. Smaller pods mean more potential use. I also like tankbladenobi for S&G especially. Sneaknobis still have use for things like vehicle hacks and network towers. I haven't got a shooty one ...

Recommend you ask participants to specify whether it's a DE ufo or a plot mission triggered one. (I haven't had one yet.)

I've never ever seen a solo drone on S&G. And i've done quite a lot now. I think troop columns always have a pod of 8 advent, even on very light. Supply raids have mini command pods of 5 at effective str 5+ (remember supply raid have +1 effective str) and 8 at effective str 7+. The real kicker i...

4 man is feasible for basic hack missions. Otherwise I go 5 good soldiers or 6 if low level or it's more than extremely light. Hopefully you get rookies from jailbreaks. You'll get soldiers from rescues. Occasionally rookies or soldiers come from PoIs. I don't have maby rebels in recruit because the...

Troop columns will only spawn in regions with strength 4 or higher. Supply raids can I think always be detected but it's a low chance and you probably need a lot of rebels on intel. You shouldn't count on getting them. Regular supply comes from smash and grabs now, which are common. Corpses are hard...

I'm actually experiencing the same thing. I have 5 engineers, 2 scientists and now all my VIP missions are for corporals.

Could be RNG; I don't know.

Aw man, getting a viper on Gatecrasher would suck. Partly because it's a nastier enemy than a sectoid. But also because then you might not get a sectoid corpse for ages, which will delay psi.

In 1.3 you should always send a very mobile squad on jailbreaks, and VIP rescues. You cannot hang about, you should be double moving whenever you're not fighting. OW rangers and OW specialists are good when they get EV (later for specialists) because they can double move and still have a shot, which...

Guys this really isn't hard. You use this rocket the exact same way you would use the stasis psi ability. Either hit enemies you have no intention of shooting that turn (like enemies you are running away from or a pod that walked in on your flank), or use it on an enemy AFTER you have taken all you...

I don't know about BEO on assault; I like my glass cannons. There are some awfully big things out there. And they hit back awful hard if you don't kill them. The other two are very strong but not absolutely mandatory for me. Formidable can be a great pick-up for a grenadier. Since it gives you 2 abl...

So after learning more about how this works, I've now been intentionally farming RNFs at the end of each GOP. I'd say I easily get 10 RNF kills each mission before I have to bug out. I could easily see this going up later in the game when my soldiers get stronger. Conclusions: 1) Farming RNFs is ze...

I've heard people often get lucky with an early rendezvous. I've had something of the same issue. I think it pushes you to stripmine some regions so that you get some troop columns. Haven't confirmed whether that works. I got my strategic layer all wrong on my last 1.3 campaign. I tried not to build...

Yeah. They're really easy to detect, as they're meant to be the main income source, though you still need Supply Raids/Troop Columns/Rendevous to get corpses. Any event, iiirc there was a change towards S&G resource distribution towards the latter half of 1.3s development cycle... Since elerium...

Intervention didn't get changed though right? maybe it needs some adjusting to fit the new turn timers? Great example of what I was talking about. Last night I had a jailbreak and I have rapid response DE up, which makes the rnf countdown shorter. So the rnfs started dropping as I hit the objective...

Some things I noticed, on L/I anyway: * Contacting a region is now 100 intel, instead of 80 intel * Nanofibre is only +2 HP, Tac Vest is +2 HP * Shredder nerfs are mentioned, but looking at inis the difference is that EXO Suit went from 35 to 60 supply, and their environment damage is only 9 now, w...

So it doesn't make a huge difference but then it's also quite cheap. In terms of early GTS projects, Vulture is the one to prioritise IMO. 150 supplies is quite a lot early game. But you'll probably pick up that much in extra loot in about 5 missions, assuming average BM sale value of say 15 supplie...

My best things: The move away from stealth towards a really good variety of mission experiences with different emphases that I have to plan around (e.g. jailbreaks are speed, S&G are burst violence, sweeps are big, long fights, etc). The new soft timer / rnf system, with its fancy traffic light ...

As a desperation move generally. E.g. when you get a bad activation. Pretty marginal.

Something else I've only noticed since 1.3 (but might be part of other mods I'm running) is that if my concealed shinobi finds an enemy squad, they get a move, even if they don't see him, and that movement can make them see my other soldiers and fully activate them. Also I had a situation of a zomb...

Agree with xwynns on the CuP + danger zone combo. Basically CuP is the most powerful OW perk as it gives you aim and damage applies to all reaction shots not just suppression. My preferred choice for OW gunner is CuP. Because if I'm going to make something run suppression then it absolutely has to d...

I haven't gotten far enough in a campaign yet in 1.3, but on paper it looks to me like DfA would be the preferred choice for timerless missions where you can park in a spot a steady->shoot all day. But I think snap shot snipers are probably the superior choice for missions that require some mobilit...

With DFA, the bonus action you get can't be used to take another shot, that would require snapshot, but it is in the same tier, so you cannot have both. So does this mean that if you go DFA, you cannot get the potential bonus shots from double tap or serial? As this requires the snapshot ability to...

Wait. If I train Shism, Soul Steal and Soul Merge, I won't be able to train ANY more abilities and thus can not advanve beyond mystic? Really? Or Psi can learn both abilities of the same level? You will always have a choice of three after each promotion. However those choices are affected by previo...

Yeah, they replaced the hard timer... With a hard timer you can't see. Yes I am salty about all the hate on timers and people that somehow think growing strength reinforcements aren't exactly the same thing just more painful to wade through. A hard timer is something that ends the mission. In 1.2 y...

A squaddie grenadier can carry 3 grenades (the grenade only slot is your intrinsic ammo) or 4 if you leave the ablative off. That's enough for one per pod on the early ex light missions. You can then increase the number and power with perks. Grenadiers are fine on GOps. You may prefer cooldown-based...