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As well, if you go for Mag rush, your rebels on Rendezvous missions won't get Laser Weapons, as they normally would after Mag weapons are unlocked. Rebels never get the leading edge weapons but will only get weapons that were researched by XCOM.

I agree with that as well. On the other hand I wonder, if it's asking too much. I haven't read the changelogs but I'd bet if you are willing to spend time reading, you will be able to read about most internal mechanics xwynns knows about himself. Plenty other games have bare minimum tutorials and w...

The mod could use a better balance to make it less frustrating to players who haven't spent 200+ hours playing it. Exactly so. At times it's just irritating hearing Xwynns comment on some internal facet that he can identify during gameplay that lets him know he can do certain things that aren't obv...

With appreciation for development limitations, my point stands. Completely agree with you, Tac1. I will never quite understand LW2 to the point that many who comment here do. My knowledge is based on what the game UI tells me, not on what I know about the guts of the game under the hood, like what ...

You can only prepare so much. You have to prepare properly and to the right degree. I'd say victory in games is 90% identifying how not to go wrong and 10% identifying when to take careful chances. Both parts are needed. Problems can exist with both. As unlikely as it is, a plan involving seven 99%...

Honestly, I'm just unlucky. I've done a full wipe and reinstall numerous times, no change. Vanilla or modded, RNG just doesn't agree with me. Well, to paraphrase Napoleon, being lucky is largely preparing for, recognising, and acting on chances when they come up. And taking the reverse of that, I'm...

Tac1, I'm thinking something is broken with your XCOM2 / LW2 install, you've had such problems hitting. It's a pain, but perhaps you should wipe everything in the Steam XCOM2 and XCOM2 Workshop directories and your profile directory and install from scratch. (I wrote down notes about all my config d...

Oh and yes, Peek from Concealment does weird things at really long detection range. The mod compensates for the OP "don't get revealed when peeking" by increasing detection range. This means it's practically at sight range with under-infiltration unless you have Covert. From the Peek From...

If they work how I think they do (you can decide when they blow and they have a very large noise radious?) I see them being useful in 2 or 3 man infiltrations where you want to sneak all the way to the objective. You could send your shinobi to one side of the map, and move along the edge of the map...

Tac1 wrote:Part of why I use Commander's Choice.

I always play with Commander's Choice.

I'm kind of gettin' tired of having to recognise faint clues to internal LW2 workings. Only so many of them I can keep track of and a lot of them I just can't remember. Shouldn't this be represented in game as Intelligence XCOM would ferret out? I know it can be difficult for LW2 to change XCOM 2 to...

There's a reason I insist on bringing a sharpshooter to every GOp in the earlygame, even though their sniper rifle is useless a lot of the time. Good point. I'm also thinking always bring at least 5 or 6 soldiers, one of them a Technical (good officers too), and make sure the Technical takes FitH. ...

There's a mod called Legacy Tactical X4 (for XCOM 2 stock, including LW2, as opposed to WotC). It has 3 grades of charges you can plant and remotely detonate in stealth, C4 for start, then X4 and E4 at later techs. I've used C4 on Shinobi, especially on maps like Troop Columns, where I set up a defe...

- House rule: only 1 8-man GOp squad (HQs don't count) So, all missions except HQ's (and Rendezvous, obviously) will be done by ONE 8-soldier squad? Ah no, it means I'm only allowed one 7 or 8-man squad and the rest of the GOps must be done with ordinary 4~6-man squads. I find 4-soldier GOps are ve...

- House rule: only 1 8-man GOp squad (HQs don't count) So, all missions except HQ's (and Rendezvous, obviously) will be done by ONE 8-soldier squad? Whoa, dude. You must have substitutes for wounds and KIAs? Except they won't be trained up unless you sub them in early. And Concussion Rockets. Cool....

Once again this is all IMO, but please don't assume that you are the only veteran in the conversation and think that you can use that as a point of reference why you have better insight into something. I don't. First I'll talk about what I'm doing in the game. Down below I'll take up the matter of ...

Thanks for the comments, dudes. I'll be interested in hearing more about how Concussion Rocket worked or didn't work for you. Back to the Xwynss video I linked above, here set to 6m30s, just before the 2nd Concussion Rocket is fired at 6m47s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTeS2FuZ37E&list=PLkr...

This still fails to provide a reason for extra boost on Willpower recovery just because the individual doesn't go on a mission, there's literally no good reason [lorewise] to give a boost just because you're not on a mission when it comes to a militaristic organization. Once again this is [A] outsi...

In Xwynns' latest video, on a Network Tower where he went loud early with a Rocket, he followed up with a Concussion Rocket here, and another Concussion Rocket later (just after 6m30s) showing it doesn't apply friendly fire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTeS2FuZ37E&list=PLkr09O8z61-rz5395oIWI...

Yes, the different play styles are interesting to see and hear about. Watching Xwynns Season 3, I decided to switch my Squad Officers from Specialist to Technical, which I was already planning for Haven Officers. I love getting 3 shots from my EV rangers every turn (PCS + Tracers = hardly ever miss)...

I went back through save games and figured out what happened. I had the soldier in both the AWC and in a Bar slot from Grimy's Morale Mod. If I remove the soldier from the Bar slot, he gets a blank status. That also happens automatically if the soldier gets his Will back up to max. However, if I rem...

After returning from a mission, I found a soldier who wasn't on the mission with a blank status. I think this is a stock bug. The only solution I found was a post on reddit that said to delete the character and use console commands to recreate it. However, the Dismiss button is faded so I can't do a...

What soldier classes do you normally use for officers? Gunsmoke Grenadiers? The only class that can reach 100+ Aim. So Sharpshooter Officers. DFA, Holo, or Snapshot? And Xwynns had a video today. Long War 2 Legend S3E20 "Tactical Artillery" Prominently, he had a Technical Officer use Osca...

What solder class officers do you use? With what perks? What squads do you make up? How do these influence what builds you go for on the various soldier classes? From discussion on my LW2 1.5 Specialist Builds topic, I think considering the Officers and Squads overall is important to figuring out wh...

The inspiration for Grimy's Moral Mod was the game Darkest Dungeon . In that game the player is like the Commander in XCOM, organizing missions of up to 4 adventurers from the player's company of adventurers. They go into horror-filled areas around the Town where the player's ancestor had his lands ...