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Don't plasma weapons have an inherent armor shredding ability?

My 2 cents: Ranger, to me, is just a chassis upon which I build my officers later. They are the most likely to be positioned within the center of my group to begin with due to their default skill & equipment sets, which avoids the leadership radius problems that happen if you try to turn someone...

I just avoid any mission that takes place in Thailand.

Here is my take on it, and why we need a 3rd way of doing this: In vanilla all dark events are temporary . No matter how bad it is, you know that it will be over by the end of the month. This is too easy. In LW1.1 a lot of dark events are permanent . No matter what you do afterward, you're stuck wit...

Consider for a minute what the black market often trades in: PCS which only the aliens know how to make, weapons mods dropped by aliens, experienced scientists, engineers and soldiers, and research information on alien technologies. How the heck do they get access to all this stuff? These aren't off...

http://i.imgur.com/8rqL8VU.jpg It's not a LW2 bug... I used to get this in vanilla as well, pretty much since launch day. The entire game was so buggy to begin with that it would have made a Bethesda coder cringe. It was also, IMHO, complete crap. I think I had less than 20 hours logged into it bef...

So I'm doing the Advent Tower mission. About halfway across the map I get hit with a wave of reinforcements. "OK, I can handle this" I think and buckle down to deal with the problem. Once dispatched, I made my way to the doohicky and encountered the last "real" pod. I got them do...

Funny thing in vanilla is that the UFO catching you has nothing to do with how often you move the Avenger around. Case in point, I had one game where, as an experiment, I got the "UFO hunting" dark event and tried just waiting it out by having the Avenger sit in place and do nothing for th...

Instead of grenade launcher just have it be a single-round shotgun, same as the Ranger uses. So once per mission if your rifleman ends up point-blank to something they can inflict a single, high damage attack against it. 40mm grenades seem far too OP, especially considering that you're talking about...

Now it's a given that in XCOM2 you'll never reach the same tech potential as in XCOM1, so I'm not talking about mech suits or Johnny Silverhand stuff. Instead I'm talking about very basic neural-interface tech, as suggested in the one background art where a soldier is seen wearing some kind of VR he...

Right now there is really only one type of supply raid: the train. It's always spawned with two days time or less, making it impossible to infiltrate. It always turns into a big fight between ten of your soldiers versus 37+ Advent. And in the end the rewards are... lacking. There has got to be a bet...

FWIW it's already (mostly) compatible- I've already taken a Viper and MEC wreck as 'prizes' from the battlefield. It doesn't support the drone archetype though and I'm not sure how to add it in exactly since I can't see the base archetype for it in the files anywhere. From another thread: "Jus...

Infinite=true, Buildable=true

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Do they provide any bonus besides reduced intel for connecting? Because even building one costs more supply than the frikkin' shadow chamber. Which seems kind of silly for a kitbashed pile of metal that would look more at home in Fallout than in XCOM.

Doh!

It would make sense that, for Technical only, spare rockets and/or fuel should be available as a Utility Item in lieu of grenades.

Manifest wrote:Similarly I've tried using MEC intimidate with the second level armor. It's activated 10+ times but has not panicked once it's insane.

It's that way in vanilla, too. Fireaxis bug, not LW2.

Oh it can be deactivated on Steam. Make sure game is set to not auto-update. Go into the game files, move the DLC folders into ZIP files, delete folders.

Oh man you are missing out, then. The trick to assault class is to skip the shotgun and just use a regular rifle and treat them like a very fast ranger with an arc thrower. That keeps them from doing anything too risky/dumb and let's you focus on your arc thrower powers. It's that arc thrower that m...

Opps, looks like the map maker decided to put a table in the same spot that the VIP spawned in, and now they're stuck in place and can't move at all.

Probably another Firaxis mistake, but maybe you guys could find a way to fix it anyway?

Read up on this problem and, based off what others said, took a hunch and disabled both "Alien Hunters" and "Shen's Last Gift," then deleted config and started new game. Ten mission in and no problems yet. Go figure. I think it's safe to say that this isn't a LW2 bug, this is a F...

http://i.imgur.com/Y0EUSTw.jpg The longest I've ever managed to go without this happening is about one hour, yet it is inevitable. No matter what I do, the game will eventually crash and this is what it will show when it happens. I figured for LW2 1.1 that I would blank it down to just that mod and...

JLtheking wrote:It's probably good to station soldiers in your havens until they are fully liberated / have the max-ed out 13 rebels / absolutely sure there are zero infiltrators left in your haven. Perhaps even all of them! That's what I do, anyways.

I've seen 16 in one haven before.

Question: Does this -2 apply to the net strength of Advent globally, or is simply a displacement of 2 strength points from one region to another?