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by Jadiel
Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:34 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Full L/I 1.2 Campaign Spreadsheet + VODs
Replies: 9
Views: 15145

Re: Full L/I 1.2 Campaign Spreadsheet + VODs

If you've already liberated one region and are about to unlock a network tower in another by May 11th, you're way ahead of the curve. If you're confident to take another HQ, I'd liberate a second region while building power and comms to expand, and beeline for coil weapons. A second liberation will ...
by Jadiel
Wed Mar 22, 2017 10:23 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Why sometimes I can´t decrease activity with infiltration?
Replies: 22
Views: 23542

Re: Why sometimes I can´t decrease activity with infiltration?

It's worth noting that there is a random factor applied to break points, making it possible that they will occur slightly before the table above, but in general chrisb is exactly right.
by Jadiel
Wed Mar 22, 2017 9:57 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: If 2 Archon Kings Appear In Game Do Both Have to Be Killed?
Replies: 17
Views: 26467

Re: If 2 Archon Kings Appear In Game Do Both Have to Be Killed?

Killer Instinct: Activating Run and Gun grants +50% critical damage for the rest of the turn Precision Shot: Take a special shot with +30 bonus to critical chance and 33% bonus critical damage Kubikiri: Against Alien Rulers, a critical hit will do double normal crit damage instead of killing the ene...
by Jadiel
Wed Mar 22, 2017 5:52 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Recruitment Raid Very Difficult
Replies: 31
Views: 40944

Re: Recruitment Raid Very Difficult

And I just got the pre-Intel Raid mission in Eastern NA: Destroy the Alien Relay, with 4 hours to expiry and Light-Moderate enemy. And that 4 hours became 2 as the Avenger flew back from contacting New Arctic (my, that ship can move). Tried equipping a full 10 soldiers with 4 Gunners to take it out...
by Jadiel
Tue Mar 21, 2017 2:45 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: [Suggestion] Double-barrel as 2 separate rolls & small tweaks
Replies: 5
Views: 8805

Re: [Suggestion] Double-barrel as 2 separate rolls & small tweaks

Whether you fire both barrels at once or not on a double-shot is irrelevant for the game mechanics in this case. It's also quite far from being OP and it can't reliably one-shot things above 10-11 HP i.e. MECs, facelesses midgame officers, sergeants, vipers, ocassional elite troopers and mutons (if...
by Jadiel
Tue Mar 21, 2017 7:07 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: If 2 Archon Kings Appear In Game Do Both Have to Be Killed?
Replies: 17
Views: 26467

Re: If 2 Archon Kings Appear In Game Do Both Have to Be Killed?

Huh, that's strange. I also had something really frustrating happened with the Berserker Queen- I took my first Kubikiri shot of the game with my best sniper, and crit. It doesn't execute Rulers, but it's supposed to deal double normal crit damage. ....I dealt 16 damage with a crit Kubikiri with a ...
by Jadiel
Tue Mar 21, 2017 12:07 am
Forum: Resolved Bug Reports
Topic: No POIs - wasn't this fixed?
Replies: 4
Views: 8414

Re: No POIs - wasn't this fixed?

There was a fix for the lack of DLC PoIs, but this only affects new campaigns I think, so you'd have to have restarted during 1.2 to benefit from it. The game generates a list of PoIs at the start of the game, and once you've got them all, there aren't any more. After that point, I think you just ge...
by Jadiel
Mon Mar 20, 2017 11:52 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Recruitment Raid Very Difficult
Replies: 31
Views: 40944

Re: Recruitment Raid Very Difficult

Yes, you might be right, actually. I was working from my memory of this thread: http://www.pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=24425 There are several ProtectRegionEarly activities in Vigilance 1 regions, which I assumed were contacted (because I didn't think the AI generated thos...
by Jadiel
Mon Mar 20, 2017 1:46 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Continent Bonus
Replies: 6
Views: 11533

Re: Continent Bonus

Dogtarget wrote:I thought I should get the bonus, but it's not happening. I've contacted all the regions and built one radio tower. Do I need to build more than one radio tower on a continent?
Most continent bonuses require 2 towers. S America and Australasia are the exceptions.
by Jadiel
Mon Mar 20, 2017 12:06 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: AWC Balance
Replies: 50
Views: 95649

Re: AWC Balance

Well, I have to disagree here. The hit mechanic is not random. Yes, the hit is based on a random roll, but the actual numbers are not random at all. The game gives me all the information to see how the current hit chance is calculated, and I can then make decisions to either reduce those red number...
by Jadiel
Mon Mar 20, 2017 11:21 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: AWC Balance
Replies: 50
Views: 95649

Re: AWC Balance

I think that's just because people haven't caught on yet. If you watch JoINrbs' most recent stream, he maxed out pistols on all of his A-team and it was pretty effective. Certainly far more effective than training up hidden level 2/3 perks that are usually going to be somewhere between average and ...
by Jadiel
Mon Mar 20, 2017 11:02 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: AWC Balance
Replies: 50
Views: 95649

Re: AWC Balance

Actually, with hidden perks, I'm pretty sure the way you 'solve' the decisions is "train good perks if available, otherwise train pistols". On average, the value of two pistol perks is going to be greater than the value of one bad offence/defence perk plus one random offence/defence perk....
by Jadiel
Mon Mar 20, 2017 10:36 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: AWC Balance
Replies: 50
Views: 95649

Re: AWC Balance

XCOM is at its best when you make interesting and meaningful decisions, and in order to make these decisions you need to have information. With hidden AWC perks you are not making decisions, you are gambling, and I think the system is too good to turn it into a gamble. I see this misconception a lo...
by Jadiel
Mon Mar 20, 2017 7:11 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: AWC Balance
Replies: 50
Views: 95649

Re: AWC Balance

It seems like a lot of people are using the reveal perk option. Might be useful to at least put it in the options menu to make it more convenient for those that want that but don't know enough about ini hacking. I think the problem with doing that is that it does significantly increase the power le...
by Jadiel
Mon Mar 20, 2017 6:59 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Recruitment Raid Very Difficult
Replies: 31
Views: 40944

Re: Recruitment Raid Very Difficult

Also if the region has been contacted it seems like vigilance is bound to a minimum of 2. I don't think this is actually true, but the resistance runs operations (which generates vigilance) before you contact a region, so most regions start with vigilance above 0. I just had a mini-retaliation -- D...
by Jadiel
Sun Mar 19, 2017 3:37 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Questions about perks [Game mechanics]
Replies: 18
Views: 24007

Re: Questions about perks [Game mechanics]

7.- Gunner Grazing fire: When a hit becomes a graze because of this, does it count as a hit or a miss? I mean to know how does it match with other perks as reactive pupils, chain shot, etc. Grazes always count as hits for the purpose of other perks (e.g. Chain Shot). I'm pretty sure the same is tru...
by Jadiel
Fri Mar 17, 2017 10:50 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: [Feedback] 1.2 Perk Tree: Tier balance (Wall of Text Warning)
Replies: 45
Views: 53107

Re: [Feedback] 1.2 Perk Tree: Tier balance (Wall of Text Warning)

Warden armors are very expensive, I find them bottlenecked on Elerium, like everything else in the end game. But tac vests? The only issue there is supplies. Big supplies start coming in July or so when I start putting several regions on all supplies to generate supply retaliations and supplies. Yo...
by Jadiel
Fri Mar 17, 2017 2:03 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: What are exactly the benefits of a liberated region?
Replies: 6
Views: 9842

Re: What are exactly the benefits of a liberated region?

Liberated regions get a 20% bonus to all jobs (intel, supply, recruit) done in them. Additionally, recruit jobs have a small chance to get you extra scientists/engineers. Advent can't run any operations in a liberated region except invasion. When you liberate a region, it destroys 5 ADVENT strength ...
by Jadiel
Fri Mar 17, 2017 1:55 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Are Flashbangs overpowered
Replies: 72
Views: 88098

Re: Are Flashbangs overpowered

You don't consider an enemy who can pull your dude out of full cover from half way across the map, allowing all the other enemies to shoot him dead, and possibly activating additional pods, to be an enemy you must control? Ok.... Well, if you're going to look at extreme cases, they're all bad. Pret...
by Jadiel
Fri Mar 17, 2017 1:07 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Are Flashbangs overpowered
Replies: 72
Views: 88098

Re: Are Flashbangs overpowered

Maybe we have different definitions of early game, but I consider sneks and stun lancers to be early game enemies. Everything you can meet before you can get lasers, I consider early game. I agree that snakes and stunlancers are early game. But I don't see why either of those enemies makes Flashban...
by Jadiel
Fri Mar 17, 2017 11:57 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Are Flashbangs overpowered
Replies: 72
Views: 88098

Re: Are Flashbangs overpowered

A lot of the discussion on flashbangs being required involve the early game. Later of course we have more tools but early we really don't have many options which is why they are so important and can't be easily nerfed. But early game, the aliens don't have many abilities either, and they don't do m...
by Jadiel
Thu Mar 16, 2017 4:00 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Perks auto-balancing
Replies: 8
Views: 11686

Re: Perks auto-balancing

Something similar was done with certain classes in LW1. For example both the Scout and Engineer class could pick up Holo-Target. But the Engineer would get +1 Aim if they took the perk, where as the Scout wouldn't. There were a few other cases that perks would give aim or will bonus, but it wasn't ...
by Jadiel
Thu Mar 16, 2017 9:28 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Perks questions
Replies: 6
Views: 8717

Re: Perks questions

I am sure everyone has questions regarding perks. Here are a few of mine. Center Mass: Does it apply to pistols, too? Walk Fire and Executioner: I guess sqaud sight does not count for snipers? Lead by example: Does this woprk, even if the officer has worse stats than the soldier? 1. Yes 2. I don't ...
by Jadiel
Wed Mar 15, 2017 7:57 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Advent Legions (Alert Level)
Replies: 1
Views: 3709

Re: Advent Legions (Alert Level)

It is possible, particularly on lower difficulty levels. On Rookie, the aliens initially get 2 points of strength every 14 days. If you can do a troop column or supply raid every week, you can keep global advent strength constant. Additionally, you can remove up to 5 points of advent strength by lib...
by Jadiel
Tue Mar 14, 2017 6:10 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Balance of different difficulty levels
Replies: 19
Views: 21597

Re: Balance of different difficulty levels

I think you're right that it has something to do with difficulty levels. Legendary is supposed to be hard. Because of this, the enemies get a bunch of stat boosts - they hit more often, do more damage (I think?), and progress in difficulty more quickly than on lower difficulty levels. The problem is...