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Give the technical an smg . Not for the move, but reduced enemy detection. It lets you get close enough for a good BBQ.

In a liberated area there is no longer infiltration, because advent doesn't have any territory to infiltrate into. They try to infiltrate you and you try to respond quickly before they recapture it.

I don't know. That's a good question.

Arcalane wrote:...except that post literally states that the game makes three rolls - the initial hit roll, a crit roll, and a dodge roll.

Read the fine print at the bottom.

That is something I miss from the original. You could shoot at anything you wanted any time you wanted. You could even have a squad blast holes in UFO walls or the ceiling instead of using the door (took hellacious amounts of ammo though). Making them all targets all the time also opens possibilitie...

There's also a pcs that lets you ignore 25 dodge from higher elevation that might work better. And you can use a scope plus a stock for more aim bonuses.

I've not encountered this, but I suspect that the rule on targeting the explosives is activated by aliens being within a certain distance and it doesn't check for visibility. That's quite exploitable:

So now we need the testers to say how long games usually last. Is 90 days for payoff still early enough or does that push something critical back too far?

Edit: thanks for the numbers!

I think you need to run the sims comparing if you DO get 1 or 2 scientists along the way too though. Seems like basic research would have the most effect when you don't get them and be somewhat diminished if you do. Not necessarily as much as you might think, remember those scientist s will reduce ...

So you are saying that basic research does actually give research like a scientist not just reduce requirements?

My test game must have been buggy, because I didn't get that outcome.

I'm just going to restart. but I do hope it helps other people.

Dammit man the rookie you just got killed was hauling my only psi officer to evac. And I lost the mission!

with rangers, my ranger has pump shotgon so an extra reload .. but it shows x4 under the single barrel and double barrel option Your shotgun has two firing modes: single barter and double. You have 4 bullets showing. If you single shoot that will drop to 3. If you then double barrel it will drop to...

If you are including quick draw then knife gets three attacks (quick draw plus two knife stabs) pistol gets QuickDraw plus one pistol. I hope you understand that just puts things in favor of the pistol, because a gunner with pistol gets pistol + 2 knives, vs a gunner without a pistol is just 2 kniv...

It reduces time to research too. Was watching a stream and it dropped research by 2 days on plasma when JoINrbs tested it out to see what it did. Now I"m really confused; this is exactly what I want to know. Soeone here said it doesn't, and someone here said it does. Who's right? How much does...

I'm afraid I don't understand - if you train the quickdraw perk, pistols can fire twice just like the knife does (both require you to not move if you want both shots). There is no advantage of the knife over the pistol here. Pistols suffer from cover, but in the equivalent situation (you are in mel...

For me, I want knife over pistol every time.

If I miss with the pistol, my turn is over, if I miss with the knife I can try again. This is so important to me. Also pistols suffer from cover but knives don't

It doesn't give you one effective scientist. It reduces the number of scientists required by research projects by one.

So if a project needs 9 days and 2 scientists it afterward needs 9 days and 1 scientist.

If instead you recruited a scientist instead, then the days required would drop to 6.

Any good news to Spark? Spark starts with Shredder Gun, which is less cooler that Rocket and Flamethrower. I hope Spark could get some love. Just adding new toys, like the old days of LW1. I know, that will cost lots of resuource, but adding some item without model is OK. Sparks are already pretty ...

I use pump action A LOT. The gun shoots only one double barrel without it. There's too many reinforcements in missions for that to be acceptable.

Relays take burn damage and the ceiling can fall on them. At least so it appears from the OP.

It appears to be a tool for recovery after being screwed by rng-eebus. Some techs and proving ground projects need a bunch of personnel, if you don't get them you stall, this gives you a way forward.

Remember that your haven troops are all rookies with assault rifles. So pick an advisor who helps in battle vs faceless and advent.

I like to drop my slowest troops as advisers because the missions are not timed. Also I can load up on utilities.

sarge945 wrote:Maybe I am wrong here, but magnetic weapons don't seem that much harder to get than Laser weapons, according to this tech tree. Why not just skip Laser entirely?

A missed shot deals zero damage. Lasers get a small acc bonus which helps early while enemies are low hp and your troops are low stats.

I'm not where I can post to the wiki, but in the alien only subsection of the perk list, poison spit is marked as a muton perk (should be viper), counterattack is a viper perk (should be muton) and bind and crush is not showing any alien (should be viper).

Cool to see this resource getting updated.