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The shadowkeeper's ability "shadowfall" - was it intentionally nerfed in LW2 to not have 100% hit? In vanilla/alien hunter it was given a guaranteed hit ability. It's a once a mission ability, kinda seems stupid now without that guaranteed hit.

I feel like the gist of that kind of mission is already in the game - if you find a facility lead and research it, you get to sabotage progress on the avatar meter (facilities in LW2 are completely hidden until you use a lead, unlike vanilla)

I have found on destroy alien relay missions where you are running short on turns the Ranger's shotgun can help knock a LOT of health off that thing in one attack. Similarly, if the gunner stands next to it they can knife it and then shoot (at the relay OR any enemies still bothering you), getting ...

Valaska wrote:A Shinobi but fore purely narrative lore reasons lol. Ranger would be my typical choice though, or medic.

Narrative/lore? I guess you're trying to reenact "The Last Samurai?"

I like your tailored strategy guomindang. I myself try to maintain 4 squads with roughly the same composition for redundance when teams are injured or doing other missions, but I can see where you maximize the success/reward of each mission type. Do you have a "raid setup" for headquarter/...

I don't have a full list but here is what I have noticed: - rookie mode starts you with 350 in the bank, other difficulties only 175 - Base infiltration time goes up (rookie is 4 days, vet is 5 days, legend is 6 days) - Base evac time (100% infiltration) goes up (rookie is 1 turn evac, legend is a c...

I think all avenger monthly upkeep $ should be removed. Why? 1) There is already plenty of upkeep built into the game directly with faceless, and indirectly managing large rosters of soldiers and building individual items 2) Early in the game it's easy to have negative income, which just doesn't fee...

For me, I want knife over pistol every time. If I miss with the pistol, my turn is over, if I miss with the knife I can try again. This is so important to me. Also pistols suffer from cover but knives don't I'm afraid I don't understand - if you train the quickdraw perk, pistols can fire twice just...

Interesting. Why is this not listed explicitly?

Also, what is the bonus for missions that only award intel?

I believe you get all rewards that are listed on the mission screen, contrary to what the other poster said, but that there is some hidden bonus like the dev is saying for capturing o.O

Officers also have a small incentive to get pistols. The spare Pistol for civilians and the "Execute Mind Controlled Soldier with Pistol" ability are both niche uses, but give you encouragement to already have a pistol on your Officer. Additionally, just for reference, I've seen 4 and 8 d...

Success is a capture or kill, just like the objectives say. A capture gives some nice bonus but isn't required. What is the bonus? Like I said earlier, I did the same mission both ways (save/load) and immediately after I got the network coordinates, and I didn't see any "nice bonus." Am I...

I'd prefer everyone have ninja/pirate designations, would be supah cool

There are 2 kinds of retal in LW2: First kind is like vanilla: kill a bunch of dudes on the map before they kill your dudes and every surviving dude will be in the Haven afterwards. Second kind is new: go rescue your dudes while ADVENT endlessly drops dudes and then evac all the rebel dudes and sol...

Is there any difference between capturing vs killing the VIP? I do not see any difference - I did the mission both ways and immediately after you get the network tower coordinates. I don't see any resource difference either on the end screen it just says VIP captured vs VIP killed. Does it affect an...

I see. You don't even use tracers? They are super cheap just $5 and come from hybrid materials research which is quite early, and they help you to hit to begin with. I would think you would use them on rangers since they fire twice.

Thanks for the reply I see now in the 1.1 changes thread what will happen next.

Question: is it possible to train all psi perks on one soldier? I have a feeling not because you can only rank up so many times?

One of the +2 damage ammo works on advent only, the other works on aliens only. I don't recall exactly which but you might check because stiletto could be the advent only one which would mean you wouldn't benefit from it against snakes and the like. Stiletto is +2 to nonrobotics, needle is +2 to ad...

Arcalane, do you equip ammo on any of your troops if so what types.

But yes, the empirical issue that you raised DOES seem to be an issue worth investigating. You mentioned you used 6 soldiers. Would it change if you only had 1? Perhaps the weights are messed up in their code somehow. Perhaps I am just totally, utterly wrong in my guesses. Your guesses are correct,...

Sharphooter officer can be very powerful IMO bringing up the accuracy of your firepower a ton with lead by example, holo targeting perks, and giving extra actions to your ranger/gunner. I think it would help a lot with a lot of the super powerful hp sponges you see in the late game. Maybe even train...

I like assaults or technical advisers. Technical rocket is amazing for wasting one of the pods from concealment, and then you can torch the faceless. Assaults are good at flanking since you usually with only one "real" xcom soldier in these faceless missions, your ways of getting past high...

Having spent some more time training up AWC perks, I'm more in favor of training everyone deeply into offense/defense at some point. The higher up perks are less situational and can be outright fantastic - I've seen rupture and rapid reaction at tier 3. And there are a lot of good available passives...

I agree rangers are fine early on, it's just when gunners access traverse fire then it's like ehhhh. Overwatch camping isn't as effective as it used to be due to AI humping high cover, but maybe there are other tactics I'm not aware of to make overwatching better.

Oscar mike/focus fire do NOT break concealment. I don't think you have to think too hard about who becomes an officer. The one time it might make a difference is if you want to pick up the skill "lead by example" in which case you would want that officer to be a sharpshooter for maximum ai...

It doesn't expire.