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It takes too many rebels to reliably detect the supply raid precursor, and you may have to do it at 0% infiltration which I don't think is necessarily a better idea than the invasion itself. It only takes 4-6. An invasion forces you forward constantly which is the most dangerous thing XCOM can do i...

I'm not sure what they were going for with the concussion rocket. It can completely fizzle and be a boon to your enemies, its nothing but a laibility .

I would have liked a choice of maybe a gas rocket, or acid rocket. Emp? I dunno something nifty and reliable.

Try the long war 2 compatible mercenary plasma rifle mod, they look worlds better than the vanilla. Ugh no, that stuff looks like garbage. Seriously people need to learn how to properly texture, those merc plasma weapons completely look out of place in an AAA game. Like some novice threw their sket...

Intel allows you to stop reinforcements coming into the region and launching the invasion... Which I forgot to set up West Asia to do and I am now facing invasion.

Blade Shinobi you ask? Cut-throat - Infighter - Blademaster - Bladestorm - Hard Target - Tactical Sense - Reaper Set higher defense and dodge units with mobility as a Shinobi, give them warden, carapace, tactical vests (maybe just tactical vests if you are hard up for mobility) and then just... Char...

Rangers the weakest? Please don't touch rangers because they are freakin glorious workhorses. They are a mainstay in almost every unit of mine and are just an outright reliable killing machine... I don't know how you are having a hard time using them because seriously they are reliable Murder Death ...

brunodema wrote:Thanks for the feedback. In the mean time, I just realized that you can retrain soldiers on the AWC, so my argument kinda has no point

Maybe lock the topic, delete it, etc

Wait, you can re-roll AWC tree's for new ones?

TechnoMage wrote:I hope I can keep a super heavy, would be so awesome

Me too! I swiped that bugger and was pretty happy, hoping it stays a super heavy lol.

It's bugged, I reported it and I think they are fixing it (look in the resolved bug reports forum). I have never seen anyone who can make it work in 1.1 (with keeping the mech in the haven). I just hacked a mec on a retaliation mission, defend the computer. I managed to take a superheavy AND an adv...

concussion rockets in general are bad and unrewarding. If LongWar didn't mess with melee accuracy so badly then there could possibly be a great use for them. I've used 100% accuracy swords mod for awhile now which with LongWar doesn't even assure its 100% accuracy xD I still get 68% and that's with...

concussion rockets in general are bad and unrewarding. If LongWar didn't mess with melee accuracy so badly then there could possibly be a great use for them. I've used 100% accuracy swords mod for awhile now which with LongWar doesn't even assure its 100% accuracy xD I still get 68% and that's with...

I regret concussion rocket... Thats all I can say lol

Its abit frustrating that the rebels aren't armed... They logically should be and at least their position known to us. Advent magically knows where they are so... Level the playing field lol

A cursory glance at Reddit would reveal that Mutons did indeed counterattack vanilla Bladestorm. https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/46ps15/bladestorm_and_mutons/ Feels a bit UP when compared to say... Close Combat Specialist and/or Close Encounters. Well I think for obvious reasons shinobis can...

They are still very strong. Most (all?) of their attacks ignore a lot of combat alien upgrades like defense or dodge so they scale well late game. Yeah, you roll on dice on their powers and it's possible to get a little bit screwed, but we're dealing with crazy psychics here. Uhhh, but a lot of the...

I am unclear why you believe that free grenade skills impair mobility. I just fact checked in my save file and it doesn't. I have a shinobi with the flashbanger perk. Her mobility is 15 (naked), which is exactly what you would expect from someone with no utility slots. The free flashbang doesn't re...

Eck... THe guys at pavonis have made Psi-Ops so worthless and such a waste this is going to be my first time giving myself resources back for this wasted psi-lab. Not even bothering with the soldier anymore, might just get them killed just to get their portrait on my memorial wall even. Pavonis shou...

Kinda pointlessly unreliable to really take it over any other option on any of the skill tree's its on... I guess its okay as an AWC but still, I prefer to reliably do damage than to do a shot that may not do anything at all ontop of the chance to miss etc.

Commander Ironman here, third tower now took one down at S7, one as S9, and now going into S4 so pretty sure this will work out again lol. You don't need to sneak if you don't want to, a ranger, 2 specialists, shinobi, and a gunner with a wild card which in higher strength can be nice to have a Spar...

@ Devon Those reinforcement counters probably need a good look. I had a "Hack device on an Advent train" mission, where on Commander the timer is set to 8 turns. I broke concealment on turn 4. On turn 7, after clearing 2 pods and engaging a third trying to stay alive, I saw the warning fo...

Shredstorm is pretty awesome. Its a long range "F-U" shotgun to anything mid HP and hardened with armor. I've managed to finish off six advent in one shot. Though I do typically give my technicals EXO suits, I tend to not use technicals in the first place.

Rangers are not close range troops, give your highest aim to rangers and just wreck everything. Rangers are sometimes close range troops, but not as often as Assaults and Shinobis. They're likely to catch more fire being on overwatch a lot. Yeah sometimes Advent shifts their lines and forces your r...

Vet, its not so bad.

Wait, you feel Gunners do more damage than Rangers? If my shinobi isn't playing the front lines then my rangers are doing ALL of the damage and work. They have a much higher to hit and just... Yeah, those passives you say are boring makes them outright the perfect workhorse. They're one of the few ...

Yeah I tend to have an assault on my back-up squad but not primary. They are really awesome if close encounters kicks in, but if not they could better be replaced by a shinobi or ranger. The Arc Thrower is GREAT but yeah giving up a lot of damage.