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You will eventually start meeting chrysalids that burrow underground and attack without warning.

Use overwatch for the month and beware of cities.

I send my stealth unit for the console and have my main force distract/pull for him. A sniper is very helpful for this. Typically I can get pretty close before going loud, and he stays hidden with my guys, then when the time is right he ghosts and makes a dash for it. Once the stun kicks in not only...

I still need further explanation; if you are literally stunning (not disorienting) the enemy with the arcthrower either you got lucky shooting through high cover, or you are shooting at a flanked unit. If you got lucky shooting through high cover well uh, nothing special going on here I coulda got ...

Cool, thanks for the explanation!

Thanks for that on Low Profile! How about Long Watch? If the soldier has AWC overwatch perks, then yeah, and Alpha Mike Foxtrot usually too. But taking it passes up Deadshot. Is it worth the trade? For me this depends on the rest of the squad not the sniper. If the squad easily clears enemies on th...

nightwyrm wrote:Having the game tell you which DE a counter-DE mission is stopping would also really be helpful.

The one that came up for me last night told me which de it was for. Maybe you didn't identify yours? I know I sometimes get messages asking me to waste intel identifying des.

Unless there's a bug, Advent troopers can't get Formidable. Here's the application config: FormidableApplicationChance=15 FormidableApplicationRules=eAR_CustomList +FormidableApplicationTargetArray="AdvCaptainM1" +FormidableApplicationTargetArray="AdvCaptainM2" +FormidableApplic...

Suggestions for Pavonis: Should the reinforcement mechanic, on a timed mission, be endless on all skill levels? Probably not. Perhaps on regular missions reinforcement waves can be capped at something like the following: Rookie: 1 pod Veteran: 1 Commander: 2 Legend: Endless Personally I think endle...

I think this is doubly true given how many players feel healing of any kind is significantly weaker than taking more killing power. It is hard to justify a huge cost added onto a weak item.

Now that I think about it "One Medkit per Soldier" is probably to prevent the use of a Field Medic unit bringing 9 Medkits to a battle. Not that I'm entirely sure WHY you would need 9 medkits. At that point, you REALLY should be making room for some flashbangs. But in that case, I guess y...

Yeah it was years ago though, about 9 now? Went ot visit a new boyfriend in the states and vanished. The officer in my squad in XCOM is based in the graphic novel he and I (few other artists) were working on. My main gaming addiction is Star Trek online. The fleet (guild) I'm in had a guy who was a...

How will making this modification affect the 'Incinerator' perk? Will it still add one more tile of range and spread (increasing the value to 9 if I change those values to 8), or will it now have no effect? Incinerator is additive so it will add to the base config value. After messing around with i...

Huh,they can get Fleche? Mind you, I recruited almost all my soldiers before the AWC patch went through- does it unlock a drastic number of new abilities? That said- I was suggesting this as a base ability, not just one that the occasional Gunner COULD roll. You'd have to remove the damage bonus fr...

Wait. What? How did everyone just gloss over this?! That's xcom baby! Yeah it was years ago though, about 9 now? Went ot visit a new boyfriend in the states and vanished. The officer in my squad in XCOM is based in the graphic novel he and I (few other artists) were working on. My main gaming addic...

I have just reached (but not researched fully) Mag weapons, but lasers definitely feel somewhat expensive to me... either that, or supplies are scarce. Only about half the guys in my four active squads are upgraded to the laser standard... Don't yet know how expensive Mag is, though. Mag is about d...

The Boz wrote:

Valaska wrote:...our lead artist got kidnapped and likely murdered. He's legally considered dead.

Wait. What?
How did everyone just gloss over this?!

That's xcom baby!

What is "covertness?" An infiltration modifier I assume?

UraniumOverdose wrote:I would wait on skulljacking an officer anyway. Once you do then Codexes can start appearing in pods, and they are the worst.

Meh. I'd rather a codex over a gatekeeper, sectoid commander, sectopod, any of the upgraded chryssalids, or an alien ruler. They're bad, but not "the worst".

I think @nightwyrm has nailed it. People seem to see the loss from x2 not the increase from lw1. Thus far I've yet to stop a single one in any of my campaigns, so I would enjoy greater ability to detect and stop them. but I see this as a failing on my part not a design flaw. If people are reliably w...

Would anybody think it was overpowered if the gunner could move and use his knife in the same action- e.g. like the Shinobi's Fleche but without the damage bonus? It would end his turn when used regardless. This is already possible. Via the awc a gunner can get flèche. Adding it as a base ability i...

Sidenote: even as-is, I've gotten use for it when the gunner is camping on a roof and ADVENT runs into the hard cover below. Just drop down and shank them with 98% accuracy. I move and shank often, not just drop and shank. Also shank + shoot is fun. But nothing is quite as rewarding as combatives t...

They are almost never in enemy materials missions, and it seems that when they are, they are the elite stunlancer... And I think that they drop just normal trooper corpses. Is that a bug? Seems like a really weird design choice if it's not. I would think so... I know I've killed quite a few elite s...

My favourite use of the frost grenade was during a Supply Raid where a pod of 8 (which included Archons, Mutons, Sneks, and Sectoids) very conveniently bunched themselves together in a 3x3 grid. Frost grenade and then two turns of hilarious turkey shoot. Give that soldier the nickname "Mariana...

You get lots of troopers. Everything else seems too rare to sell. Some people don't use medkits and they can sell vipers.

cerebrawl wrote:

GavinRuneblade wrote:So if ranger can't get perk X then no one can?

Exactly.

Thanks to you and arcanalane both. I was confused by this too.