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by Jadiel
Tue Mar 14, 2017 1:51 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: AI Improvements
Replies: 2
Views: 5503

AI Improvements

One of the things I'm finding bugs me the most at the moment is that the AI still does a lot of stupid things. Double-moving when it could OW, not using it's abilities and instead taking bad shots, officers moving and marking when there's no one else left to shoot, wounding my suppressor after the e...
by Jadiel
Mon Mar 13, 2017 8:05 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Pistol Builds?
Replies: 47
Views: 55721

Re: Pistol Builds?

CTH and CTC are both pretty close to 100 anyway. Wait what? Shinobi without shadowstrike is nowhere near 100 on ctch or ctc on inactive pods. Right, but I was talking about Assaults when I said that. I think the conversation has got a bit confused. I was telling you about my experience with Pistol ...
by Jadiel
Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:34 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Bug Reports
Topic: Walk out of suppression, no reaction shot, but still "Suppressed" aim penalty?
Replies: 11
Views: 14657

Re: Walk out of suppression, no reaction shot, but still "Suppressed" aim penalty?

My understanding is that this isn't actually a bug; it's WAD. Suppression, I think, doesn't break whether you take the reaction shot or not. I believe this applies to the reverse as well- if you suppress an enemy, they're at an aim penalty on their turn unless somebody cancels the suppression, peri...
by Jadiel
Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:32 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Pistol Builds?
Replies: 47
Views: 55721

Re: Pistol Builds?

Did you find overall that it was worth building an assault pistol just for a concealment opening? I was beginning to think it had more use in general fights but if all you're doing with it is conceal opening, then I'll just go back to the usual assault builds. If what you're mainly doing is using f...
by Jadiel
Sun Mar 12, 2017 7:04 am
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Pistol Builds?
Replies: 47
Views: 55721

Re: Pistol Builds?

If you look a bit earlier in that quote, I'm talking about shooting at unactivated pods while concealed. So they're obviously not in cover. When using Faceoff without concealment, I try to position as well as possible with RnG, but I generally can only flank around 50% of enemies. I just tested Veno...
by Jadiel
Sat Mar 11, 2017 7:43 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Pistol Builds?
Replies: 47
Views: 55721

Re: Pistol Builds?

Arc Pulser might be more useful combined with Chain Lightning. It doesn't combine with chain lightning, I tried it the mechs don't get shot at. I also believe that even electroshock doesn't work with chain lighting either, I fired a chain lightning at a muton elite and it was neither stunned nor di...
by Jadiel
Sat Mar 11, 2017 5:33 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Pistol Builds?
Replies: 47
Views: 55721

Re: Pistol Builds?

I tried pistol Assaults in my last Campaign, and found them to be really good. Killer Instinct, Aggression, Bring 'Em On and Faceoff synergize really well. I tried a couple of different builds, and I'm still not sure what I like best. Faceoff is the key pistol perk, and typically I put them in the A...
by Jadiel
Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:14 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: 1.3 close range accuracy tables?
Replies: 2
Views: 4765

Re: 1.3 close range accuracy tables?

In one of xwynns recent videos he mentioned something like "all shotguns are getting +20% aim to their close range attack tables, and the other guns are getting +10%, in patch 1.3" What I want to know is: will swords also be getting an aim buff, and if so, how big is it? It's only fair. I...
by Jadiel
Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:24 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Psi Ops still suck?
Replies: 208
Views: 5041436

Re: Psi Ops still suck?

If enemy Will didn't scale up over the course of the campaign, I think you'd see Soulfire giving similar numbers to HoB during midgame and endgame as well. Well, you wouldn't see that, actually, because Soulfire (and the other damaging psi abilities) deals fixed damage based on Psi-Amp tier. Psi Of...
by Jadiel
Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:11 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Alternatives to a walking battle scanner for vision
Replies: 12
Views: 15085

Re: Alternatives to a walking battle scanner for vision

The biggest issue is they might as well not exist in the game currently due to how hard they are gated and the nerfs the have seen with x2. To get them in LW2 you need a proving ground (May or June the earliest you are building that but quite often later). Then you have all the other higher priorit...
by Jadiel
Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:03 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Psi Ops still suck?
Replies: 208
Views: 5041436

Re: Psi Ops still suck?

I said this in a separate thread, but it's relevant here as well. I think eliminating the crazy way that aliens Will stat currently scales would fix a lot of the problems with Psi. It's silly that aliens scale in two ways (HP and Will) which both reduce the effectiveness of Psi abilities, when that'...
by Jadiel
Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:39 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: So 0%/low% supply raids are getting nerfed....
Replies: 29
Views: 44035

Re: So 0%/low% supply raids are getting nerfed....

Have you tried a campaign without doing 0% supply raids? I'd recommend you give it a go before you assume it will make the game too hard. The game was balanced around not doing them, and I found the economy worked just fine, even without going on any supply raids at all.
by Jadiel
Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:01 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Bug Reports
Topic: Walk out of suppression, no reaction shot, but still "Suppressed" aim penalty?
Replies: 11
Views: 14657

Re: Walk out of suppression, no reaction shot, but still "Suppressed" aim penalty?

I second that. Similar situations happend to me multiple times during my campaign. ADVENT Gunner area supresses. I run the supression (sometimes taking damage) far out of the area supress field, but i end up still with the supress debuff. I'm not sure if this is WAD, but I'm also not sure if I want...
by Jadiel
Fri Mar 10, 2017 5:55 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How are people liberating regions so fast?
Replies: 45
Views: 88360

Re: How are people liberating regions so fast?

You don't need to sprint. On Legendary, you can't do any liberation missions for the first month, so it's not like you need to liberate a region in April to have a chance of winning. But yes, the reason you can't do it on Legendary is very early liberation has a big effect on how far ahead you are, ...
by Jadiel
Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:30 am
Forum: Long War 2: Bug Reports
Topic: Region invasion: civilians unfriendly?
Replies: 2
Views: 4506

Re: Region invasion: civilians unfriendly?

On invasion missions there are two types of 'civilians' (with blue circles). Some of them are rebels from your haven, and some are just civilians. You can only rescue rebels. If you move into interaction range of a civilian, they will just run a short distance and disappear. So that bit is WAD. I've...
by Jadiel
Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:15 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: [feedback] Reduce Will scaling on enemies
Replies: 1
Views: 5406

[feedback] Reduce Will scaling on enemies

As you move further through the game, Mk2 and Mk3 enemies get stat upgrades over their early game brethren. The most obvious one is that hp increase considerably. However, they also get small bonuses to Aim and Defense. They also get huge bonuses to Will. For example, the humble Advent Trooper on Le...
by Jadiel
Thu Mar 09, 2017 11:57 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: The value of Conceal
Replies: 6
Views: 9242

Re: The value of Conceal

I think I probably have the opposite view point to you. I think that Conceal should be removed from the game entirely. I think moving it to MSGT is a reasonable compromise, as at least it delays making Hack/Recover Data missions trivial until slightly later in the game. It also fits better with the ...
by Jadiel
Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:04 am
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Early missions with short timers, a failing strategy
Replies: 36
Views: 42279

Re: Early missions with short timers, a failing strategy

In my experience though, I don't think it works on soldiers who have been promoted to squaddie through the GTS. That seems to correctly allocate the right amount of experience to make them a squaddie. The bug only appears on Rookies who have never been on a mission, or on soliders purchased from the...
by Jadiel
Wed Mar 08, 2017 5:01 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: PSA use assaults for stealth missions you can't lose.
Replies: 22
Views: 27141

Re: PSA use assaults for stealth missions you can't lose.

If you're referring to the video where Xwynns RnG'd to attack some Archons, he actually made a mistake there. Shooting is still turn ending, RnG does nothing to change that. RnG is useful for hacking and punching VIPs because those actions aren't turn ending. And actually, that may be the best way ...
by Jadiel
Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:55 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Is roust bugged or I had rolled a 0.000000001 probability?
Replies: 9
Views: 13849

Re: Is roust bugged or I had rolled a 0.000000001 probability?

Based on my experience using it, I would say that it rolls damage as normal, and then divides by five, rounding up. So, if you roll 6 or higher on your flamethrower, you get 2. Otherwise, you get 1. With a Mk3 flamethrower, I guess it's possible to get 3 damage, but I've never seen it happen. ETA: T...
by Jadiel
Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:50 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: PSA use assaults for stealth missions you can't lose.
Replies: 22
Views: 27141

Re: PSA use assaults for stealth missions you can't lose.

profDEADPOOL wrote:This is also really dumb because if you get Run and Gun from the AWC on a Sniper with DFA then you can Fire and get a kill>get the DFA action>Activate Run and Gun>and now you have another two actions to fire a second sniper rifle shot.
Snipers can't get Run and Gun from the AWC.
by Jadiel
Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:07 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Avatar facility missions
Replies: 10
Views: 16569

Re: Avatar facility missions

There are lots of sensible ways to make stealth harder. Increase Enemy spotting radius by e.g. 20%. Nerf Ghostwalker considerably. Remove Conceal from the game, or at least shift it to MSGT. Reduce the stealth bonus given by SMGs (the mobility alone is plenty enough reason to take them). Any or all ...
by Jadiel
Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:02 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Why do I never get scopes?
Replies: 10
Views: 15185

Re: Why do I never get scopes?

Sometimes it goes the other way though. I've bought stocks in the BM before, because I really needed them for my DfA snipers...
by Jadiel
Wed Mar 08, 2017 2:30 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Avatar facility missions
Replies: 10
Views: 16569

Re: Avatar facility missions

There is no guarantee you'll gain those facility leads, there is no way to tell a facility lead mission from a PoI mission, both appear with an Intel Package reward. The only 100% guaranteed way to reduce Avatar is to take the main objective missions. If the bar is filling and you don't have a Faci...
by Jadiel
Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:13 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: PSA use assaults for stealth missions you can't lose.
Replies: 22
Views: 27141

Re: PSA use assaults for stealth missions you can't lose.

I didn't know about this mechanic, I assume it works that way with any actions that don't end your turn? Like if I Run&Gun and then fire a pistol shot or whatever, it eats the run and gun charge and leaves me with 2 more actions? Yes, I think so. In my experience, Run&Gun basically works li...