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I would actually question the use of Bring'em On before I question Aggression. Since there are targets that cannot be flanked (robots, archons, zerkers), Aggression can help mitigate the massive loss of crit (40%). It's extremely relevant to push down the dodge of archons in particular. I have also ...

There is some misinformation in Tuhalu's post The absolute minimum number of enemies that will spawn into a mission is 8 in LW2. You can get a minimum of 6 on a rendezvous mission. I'm curious to know how infiltration affects yellow reflex chances past 100% infiltration. It is asserted in one of the...

Why should they behave differently? What is the flight cap for scripted UFO hunts?

Despite a year of playing vanilla xcom and a few months of xcom 2, and despite many google searches and info digging, I have never figured out how the UFO detection mechanics work with great specificity. If someone has the specific information on what determines the flight time and chance to evade t...

I'm not having problems getting elerium. I know how to render cores, and I usually render faceless corpses since I don't prefer to use the other products of faceless corpes. I guess I was just overexcited when reading the "transition to 1.3 guide" billing S&G as the "primary sourc...

Danger Zone makes it much easier to attain the maximum number of area suppression shots you can take if you have an elite expanded magazine, 5 shots. Additionally, with Danger Zone and even just a normal Expanded Magazine, it is trivially easy in many engagements to cover 3 enemies with area suppre...

I find it situationally useful. It can be a decent distraction on small GOPs, to try and draw pods away from the objective. Primarily I use it for retreating (although you usually need a Command or Salvo to do this effectively), or otherwise temporarily disabling enemies who I don't intend to fight...

Stun Lancers (at least the higher rank ones) have the Whirlwind Perk in 1.3! Fun lancers indeed.

I mean if I had "least favorite things" I would first try not to use that wording since it seems negative/complaining, and I would just create highly specific threads with specific titles so people could discuss substantive issues with more productive results.

I would consider the black market an independent source of elerium. In fact, I would consider it one of the main sources of elerium itself. Since elerium is so scarce as the game progresses, I make buying it whenever its available a priority. Tying it to S&G specifically makes no sense. We can a...

So therefore, if you turn the graze band off, you SHOULD still be able to dodge hits down to grazes. There is one issue I saw that I have not been able to explain/reproduce: 1) I had graze band at 0 2) I flanked a MKI shieldbearer on my first network tower, who I *think* has zero dodge 3) a 96% cha...

Well I appreciate your feedback 8ways, but I find that 1) you cannot factor in the elerium from the black market as specifically due to S&G. I have been able to afford the elerium from the black market without S&G. You cannot count the black market as "smoothing over" the rng of S&...

One thing to consider is that in 1.3, flashbangs and suppression don't apply as much aim penalty as they did before. I do find myself getting hit a lot more by disoriented and suppressed enemies than I used to, which is really jarring, but that's likely my reptilian brain's fault, not the game's. (...

Thanks for the loot table, that helps a bunch. I see now that elerium dust is actually 1/3rd as rare as alloys, so maybe that is why I have literally seen zero so far even though I have done 5-6 S&Gs. It also helps to see why I'm not seeing S&G anymore at a late stage in the game because I'v...

In 1.3, there is more encourage to liberate regions (you reduce the doom count by one). There are still a couple things I think that are worth thinking about/discussing 1) The Liberation modifier for golden path missions doesn't really seem worth chasing. The modifier is 8 days on Rooke, I think 10 ...

They are your primary source. At least, they are for me. Supply raids and troop ambushes are jackpots that don't happen all that often. Smash and Grabs are steady payouts that you get all the time. And reading your post very carefully, antifringe, you are also not getting any elerium from S&G. ...

I like the new pod types/compositions. I was pleasantly surprised to be confronted by a 6-7 pod of all robots, it was a change of pace and made me actually consider to bring an EMP bomb next time around (although probably not, it's so rare). I like the overall smaller pods on general ops. I remember...

S&G aren't supposed to be as good as troop ambushes and supply raids. They're a GOp, after all. But if you read the quote I directly took from saph7, one of the long war crew, from this link http://www.pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=25843 It clearly says "The new mi...

It would be helpful if you guys collected impartial data on this, like recorded every shot's information without discarding things that might invalidate the hypothesis. I see a ton of unsubstantive words like I am seeing an alarming amount of people starting to report the same thing and am starting ...

Overall I find that enemy force level/corpse progression generally makes sense, but I would enjoy the game more if some of the higher tier corpses were more reliable to find. This feedback is with respect to Rookie difficulty, although some of the lessons may apply to higher difficulties. Now I unde...

I like the new mission type a lot! Feedback: When I was looking at this post by one of the long war crew, they said specifically Smash & Grab The new mission type for 1.3, these are going to be your primary source of alloys and elerium and a major source of supplies. Unlike other timed missions,...

V 1.3, cosmetic mods In the 1.2 patch notes, it says this - Delayed first chance of Avenger Defense dark event based on DifficultySetting. Hunter UFO will cap at 14 days flight time. In my current 1.3 rookie run, I cleared the blacksite on 10/30, and it spawned a UFO chasing me. It is now 11/17, and...

V 1.3, cosmetic mods. The HEAT perk on the grenadier does not enable incendiary grenades to shred armor. I tossed an incendiary grenade from a HEAT grenadier on a 2 armor muton centurion (rookie mode is why it only has 2 armor) and it still had 2 armor afterwards, this is easily reproducible. The wo...

I'm confused to how psis level up/train in 1.3. Maybe this is a bug, but what I did was 1) trained a rookie into a psi ops 2) stuck the psi ops as an adviser, then I won a rendezvous mission 3) at the end of the rendezvous mission, it said "promotion" above the psi ops, and when I checked ...

Yes the other OW classes can't use the LMG, but area suppressing costs a lot of ammo, and the damage for LMGs was nerfed recently so it's only 0.5 damage over an AR. The LMG has its own set of problems, such as having lower accuracy at close range, as well. Why not give CUP/danger zone a try? As xwy...