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Alright, that's quite enough, gentlemen. This has drifted off-topic from 1.3 changelog stuff to a personal war over Nexusmod vs Steam Workshop. Each to this own, live and let live. So, as a fellow schmuck on the forum, I'ma plead with you two to take this into PMs if you're going to continue this ar...

Looks like JL's updated the 1.3 changelog.

DISCUSSION TIME!

Also, you know the drill, people. If we ask for release dates, we start having to bury rookies.

PS: Keep it civil, people. Pwetty pwease, with sugar on?

Sure. Would you like to hear only my criticisms, or would you also like my sense of what a solution might be for them? HO - still looking forward to your answer, thanks. Alright. I've been busy doing other things, and have been off the forums for a while. Diving back in here for a second because th...

Most of the feedback I agree with, but you're just completely off the mark about offensive grenadiers. They are fine, they are great. I use them a lot. Boosted cores helps incendiary grenade quite a bit (it double dips in both the main damage, and also boosts the dot damage; so does biggest booms, ...

So, I thought I'd sum of my thoughts so far, regarding the balance of the perk trees on the classes. Around the time I decided I was ready to wipe the campaign, I edited the ini to reduce AWC retraining to 1 day and experimented a little. I'm not going to argue overall class balance vs other classes...

I'm with Trihero, on this. You're shooting down anything that does not agree with your own viewpoint. This is not a debate thread... It's a monologue fishing for validation.

I feel Rangers are *mostly* fine. They Overwatch very well with Grazing/RR, and Walk Fire is a nifty utility tool. My only complaints with them are mostly tied into perk balance at a couple ranks: Executioner just doesn't compare to Grazing Fire for ANY build, while Close and Personal is damn near u...

I don't know if gunners are stronger than Sharpshooters or Assaults, that's arguable, but I don't think they're much weaker either. They carry the strongest gun in the game, and can shoot 2 times a turn on different targets using Traverse fire. Both Xwynns and Jolnrbs don't like traverse, but it dr...

Another part of it is that the AI will *always* move when flanked by a visible enemy. Suppress, then move someone into a flank. They don't even need actions left (Although having Ever Vigilant helps cheese this, especially with the Threat Assessment PCS). Laugh as the Gunner gets at least two free s...

So. Gunners are still rather overpowered compared to the other classes. Most of this problem lies in the power of the “cooldown” builds, that cycles several very potent cooldowns to extreme effect. By contrast, their Suppression build is merely strong. Especially with the rather justified nerf to Da...

Do the 1.2 changes only apply to new soldiers, or to existing soldiers who haven't yet revealed their upper level perks? AWC Perks are rolled when the soldier is promoted/created to a class (ie, not a rookie). Even ones you cannot see are already rolled. You can adjust the ini to reveal AWC perks. ...

As a side-note, does anyone actually know where the soldiers learning in the AWC do supposedly go? It visually looks like purely a MedBay, and I assume they don't just sit in the biggest, fanciest bed and download their new skill... It's a VR system. If you click to upgrade the AWC to get the secon...

Anyone else very underwhelmed with the Overwatch PCS? They eat up a PCS slot to do something that isn't very useful in general. Rangers don't need it. By the time they pick up Rapid Reaction, they have both high aim from their progression and Grazing Fire. Specialists generally shouldn't be built Ov...

I like nicknaming my soldiers manually, generally. Although I do like the occasional one from the random list. I tend to name the soldiers based on their names, their AWC perk sets, or other unique features. And for special accomplishments in-game. That tends to work better for me when I have a whil...

A bit of a bump here, because I feel this is still relevant given 1.3 will be a balancing patch. Hail of Bullets doesn't feel especially nerfed on Gunners. Just reload and use it, same as before, really. The "cycle cooldowns" build is largely untouched. At the same time, while it might be ...

If this is possible, I agree with it. Seems a good buff. Side note: Soulfire itself could use a bit of a buff, as it's not very effective as it stands. I'm fond of putting the fire in Soul fire and making it ignite the target (thus applying CC in addition to a bit of damage). Or at least a chance of...

So.... Been playing around with 1.2 and am liking a lot of the changes. But one thing that does stand out a little is Rangers received relatively little attention, as they are a little on the weak side unless spec'd for Overwatch (which is quite good). I was thinking about ways to give rangers minor...

Oh. They're straight up opposed rolls. Gotcha. Still, looks like Crit resistance indirectly increases dodge, then? By reducing the chance of an off-setting crit roll?

So, we know the reworked hit mechanics mean dodge counters crit and vice versa....

My question is this: Does crit resistance (from Resilience, Nanoscale Vest, etc) apply BEFORE the crit/dodge interaction (thus mitigating dodge-loss to crit), or after?

I think Psi Ops definitely need a reduction in tank-time. But I think a bigger problem is their lack of a consistent iconic ability. Soulfire is pretty much the only active ability that they have they they are both guaranteed to get and has a reliable effect (insanity is inconsistent, not good for a...

I don't know if this is possible coding wise or not but could you not have it empty your clip on your opponent (similar to the codex disarm thing), essentially requiring a full clip to use and forcing a reload after using it no matter how much ammo you have by default? I don't think that would addr...

As long as you can reload and hail, i don't see how it even matters. You don't really need to move to a better position when you auto-hit so unless you just got your cover blown away, all it does is prevent you from moving and suppressing the next turn. Not that big of a deal to me. Yeah. Back in L...

Yup. I fear Vipers more than any other early-game unit because of this, by a *wide* margin.

Mavoc wrote:Deadeye is the perk you mean. Deadshot is the 10% crit chance passive.

Ah, you're right. Always mix those two up. Reminds me that I intended to see if Deadeye still had a vanilla bug regarding Run & Gun.

But what if Firaxis and 2K intentionally infected them with the flu, just to provide a cover story for their absence in posting due to the confirmed[*] NDA over the DLC?

*By Batman