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That's the one tradeoff to the improved AI; even though they prefer high cover, they do so at the cost of bunching up more than in vanilla. In vanilla I think they always tried hardest to spread out more than respecting type of cover.

Do y'all build alloy plating (+3 ablative, costs 10 supplies + 1 alloy + trooper corpse per 1) or not? (maybe after lasers?)

I don't find squads very useful. Most of the time I need to go into a mission with soldiers from different squads cos everyone else is in hospital. By the way, if you see your officer details, there is a button showing you the list of soldiers that have server under him (and how many missions each)...

Tygan is sitting around whining at me because I keep asking him to make Viper Gumbo and Trooper Casserole instead of doing "important research" that I can't because I don't have enough elerium fragments*.

I lol'ed.

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. Ah ok...

Whatever I do I ALWAYS have a field medic. For some reason the enemies always target my field medic first. It's kind of silly when my medic gets knocked unconscious when he's the one supposed to revive unconscious people =_=. I like the idea but find the space hard to justify and his offensive abil...

Easy simple rule of thumb is officer soldier advisers are always the winner, because of retaliation and also you can't easily be sure if you get rid of all faceless. Also the recruiting is very helpful so you can spend the other rebels on intel (or supplies if region liberated). As the game gets to ...

Heh personally I think the gunner outclasses the ranger as well, because eventually gunner can learn traverse fire which is equivalent to light em up, and after you account for that gunners just do more damage with their main weapon. But rapid reaction is pretty tasty if you are good at forcing enem...

I mean if it gives you one effective scientist, do you think it could be worth doing it once early game because think about it, the game lasts perhaps up to 9+ months, one scientist early in the game could be worth a lot of science over that period of time. That's the kind of question I'm after. I k...

I really appreciate all the numbers JLtheking, I'll have to look at the numbers more closely but simply from empirical testing, again if you have 6 men with advanced suppressors, each cham suit you add on top of that only reduces infiltration time by 1-2 hours. This is totally empirical. It doesn't ...

If I could go into every mission with a Shinobi, two Grenadiers, two Technicals, and an Assault, I'd be happy. That's 15 frag grenades, 2 rockets, 4 four doses of napalm, a pair of flashbangs, a sword and a load of buckshot. Go ahead ADVENT, show me an 8-man pod. Hmm I like this idea a lot. I think...

The gunners blade actually does pretty decent damage and is SUPER reliable. If you are sick of melee oriented aliens killing your tank gunners the knife as a counter works out pretty well too. I've used it to for certain finish off low health aliens here and there. Its not arc thrower or sword fant...

1. I heavily question the role of the gunner's knife. It's cool that he has a unique secondary like everyone else has their signature secondary, but I just don't get why this one is so crappy. 2. The chameleon suit doesn't quite make sense to me. I believe that infiltration times work on some kind o...

1. For the global haven management screen, it would be amazing if you could sort your regions by the tabs at the top. The most helpful would be by region (alphabetical), I would love this since when I get a message that East Asia got a new recruit it would be easier for me to find E alphabetically r...

I think there's something deeper going on here than just coil weapons. Recently I had another inexplicable damage calculation: gunner with beam cannon (10-16 damage), +1 from central mass, with stiletto rounds +2 to organic, I shot a sectoid commander for 11 damage. That is impossible. My minimum sh...

I can't pass center mass up, it makes the gunner's main attacks shine bright. It's also hard for me to tell which unit a stun lancer will hit - they always seem to go for my specialist or something squishier than a gunner.

I'm wondering if someone can look at the code and tell us explicitly what "further research accumulates at a faster rate" means. What I'm really wondering if it's worth it to research it once or twice early in the game - will the time spent up front here reduce the overall time to hit all ...

Embarrasingly it took me quite a while to figure out grenadiers could wear something like 4 frags + SMG. I was stuck with the base mentality of 2 frags + flash + ceramic + assault rifle, but I forgot that there's no grenade limitation in the utility slots anymore and I forgot the SMG helps offset th...

^ what he said Both the easiest and best strategy is to always station an officer soldier in a haven #1 reason has nothing to do with faceless, it has to do with retaliation missions, the soldier will show up to help on that when those occur (and you have no advance warning except hunches based on a...

To answer the original question, I don't really "feel" advent strength until 5 or so, and that's about when they send retaliations. Level 3 instead of 2 or 1 is essentially ignorable. And also I agree with the poster above, your strategy cannot be to literally to hide everywhere at once; a...

I doubt your campaign is bugged, just make sure you have the vast majority of your rebels on intelligence and use the avenger scan in a region you want to liberate to help the intel process. Read the mission description/reward carefully. You will see missions that have a second line under the reward...

I suggest putting an officer soldier adviser in the haven (absolutely mandatory to root out faceless and to provide additional cushion in retaliation strikes which can happen without notice), 1 rebel on recruiting (this 1 guy + officer will provide a rate of incoming rebels that "feels good&quo...

^ what he said, if you missed it maybe you are the one with mods problems or just not trying to look (I don't mean this disrepectfully so don't take it that way ), it's plain as day the rush techs are intel costed. I think it's intentional because the prices seem fairly appropriate (the expensive on...

I honestly think it's fine the way it is. I think it's meant to be used at point blank range, and the tradeoff is it kills anything until like September in one shot. If you have a problem with the ranger's secondary, try using the gunner's secondary (lmao).

I believe flush has a lower cooldown, otherwise I would never consider it.