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An interesting nerf to sting grenades would be to give them fall-off stun % chance, so enemies at the center have a 50% chance to stun, and the enemies at the edge would be something like 25%. I think more like 20% in center and 10% at edges xD I changed them to 100% 1 point. So you can negate a mo...

Medicial protocol just has much more value lategame. It doesn't end the turn and gives 4-10 HP to an ally. In combination with the other abilities its between 8 to 40 HP extra for the squad per mission. Its true that taking wounds is not ideal, but you're still going to take wounds. Even without red...

Might get changed in 1.3. Current application rates are 100%, but they only hit the first(?) target on multi-target abilities or are entirely disabled. So you can area suppress/kill zone/rapid reaction and apply a lot of poison rounds, but you cannot saturation fire and apply a lot of poison rounds(...

Well i still put it on full stealth shinobi because 1) You don't bring full stealth shinobi to combat missions 2) You don't care about doing damage on stealth missions. Its better to just bail if you get revealed, which means evasive is stronk edit: remember that evasive eliminates the graze band an...

The problem with shadow strike on a shinobi is that it's on the same rank as evasive and evasive is super hilariously strong. (Especially combined with the rest of the defensive tree)

Quick response is OK but a bit too easy. You lose no troop time doing them, and balancing them means that players will almost alway want to do any that pop up like current 0% Better would be to swap the infiltration vale so that a low infiltration gives an easy mission (you strike before the enemy h...

I think xwynns subtly mentioned in one of his videos that they are increasing mission duration timers across the board, allowing for better infiltration timers and more varied size groups. That's not exactly the same thing as making them easier to detect, but still has a healthier outcome in genera...

I agree that they need to be easier to detect. I proposed a solution in an other thread which I think works out pretty well. Just stating that I don't think dropping hints down to 8 will make all that much of a difference.

Not a fair comparison, I've been saying this many times. You should be comparing 2 non-HI flanking vs 1 HI flanking, not 2 non-HI non-flanking. Or you can compare 1 HI cover shots vs 2 non-HI cover shots, that is also fair. You cannot arbitrarily change other variables to make your variable of inte...

Grenade dots are an effect of the grenade and so are effected by grenade perks.

Ammo is separate from the pistol and applies only to the base effect. (Bonus damage rounds should not increase damage on a crit either).

So the only way to increase damage from venom rounds is to rupture.

I don't understand your comments at all, by "retain" I mean that in my proposed changes which swap the flanking/mobility power from Shinobi to Rangers I retained the OW structure you're saying is good (actualy make it better by giving them lone wolf and pushing it earlier. Wrt: hunters ins...

Shinobi. In general too. As for moving how else do you get your ranger in a position to shoot at flanked units? Do units regularly just flank themselves for your Rangers? I dare to say that your games must be much easier than mine. Let's dispense with the cute sayings like "I dare your games a...

Shinobi. In general too.

As for moving how else do you get your ranger in a position to shoot at flanked units? Do units regularly just flank themselves for your Rangers? I dare to say that your games must be much easier than mine.

Shinobi also get rapid fire if that is what you're referring to (otherwise no, Rangers cannot move and fire twice). They also get serial if they want - if they both have rapid fire, rangers can still attack one more time than shinobis, not always, but the volume of fire potential is very practicall...

Shinobi also get rapid fire if that is what you're referring to (otherwise no, Rangers cannot move and fire twice). They also get serial if they want

So its basically better in every metric. You missed the obvious one, firing twice at a flanked target with ranger vs a hunter's instinct, no wonder you are getting biased results. Well yea, ttc is a powerful ability. As for the rest... It wasn't ways possible to flank but it wasn't that hard. Main ...

I've heard a lot of smack talked about rangers, and I honestly do not understand the problems people have. This could very easily be because I play on Vet, so grain of salt, but Rangers have formed the core of my squads on every single one of my campaigns. Do other people use Walk Fire? So on lower...

Common save game bug. This is why you see "don't turn this machine off" warnings in everything. Saves are usually written at once, by wiping and then rewriting the file. A crash between turns as the file is being saved will result in a blank save file. GG. This is why I don't play ironman

This guy makes excellent points, I do not think the ranger needs a severe overhaul. You are vastly underestimating the ranger's ability to fire twice right off the bat. You need to look very closely at what a substantial damage output this is versus even something like hunter's instincts. A gun shi...

Give an all ranger run a try. The biggest issue you will find us that RNG involving them is crazy. Well kind of. An all ranger run would have problems with stealth and timed combat missions. But otherwise would perform better than your expect. The reason for this is something that doesn't work well...

I am curious what difficulty your run was on and what guns you equipped your shooty shinobis with. SMGs would be the obvious ones for mobility, but ammo and damage takes a pretty big hit. Shotguns and and rifles bring ammo and damage but the mobility hit could be annoying. Thoughts on the Shinobi t...

To start with: You can disable classes by going to XComClassData.ini and setting NumInForcedDeck=0 and NumInDeck=0 for each class (these be 1 and 4 respectively). The first one determines the number that you are guaranteed to get. The second determines whether or not they're in the random pool once ...

Do we know the fix is they are limiting it to 8 soldiers? That just changes the threshold at which you break the economy and nothing else matters. It will still be the case that once you can do ONE 0% with 8 soldiers, you can keep using the same soldiers since there's no infiltration time and do th...

I don't see the benefits of ANY changes brought to Psi by Pavonis. I would like to get the good old vanilla system back. It worked perfectly fine and I had absolutely no issues with it. It wasn't op, it did not make the other classes useless. Can we have a mod with vanilla Psi for long war 2? The r...

I think that focusing on improving abilities is probably the top of the list. An additional thing that could be done is to modify their stat scaling. (If not considered) My rubric for this is that I view psi troopers as a "prestige" class. Not like DnD but as in the normal scope of the wor...