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Jadiel wrote:Just to give an alternative viewpoint, I find 1-2 Snipers invaluable on Tower assaults.

This is my tower strategy as well. It takes longer, but it's a methodical crawl through the map with the Shinobi spotting (after disabling the tower of course).

Doing only Troop Columns (no 0% supply raids) I also had a problem with Stun Lancers, only getting 1 corpse through September.

I had to wait for Heavy Lancers arrive.

Gotcha! Precision, of course! Well, you'd better add 10 decimal places to your list as well. :) Because shooting wild under the guise of "0%" chance is probably worse than the current text. I do understand the issues faced in presenting the data properly. However, I still maintain that &qu...

Max scatter is never 3 and doesn't change based on range or aim. There are only two modifiers to max scatter. FITH is -2, moving is +2. So you can only have 2, 4 or 6 tiles of max scatter. Also moving adds a -30 aim malus to the shot, so moving and shooting a rocket, even with FITH and 100 aim, is ...

0 - 4.9% 1 - 22.0% 2 - 37.2% 3 - 28.0% 4 - 7.9% I agree that a list of tiles and hit percentages would be the most useful way to display the information. Then the player would have no confusion. The problem with the current "+/-" is that it implies RANGE or max variance, when it's actuall...

So, using joinrbs calculator I see that the HTML text can't be MAX. In fact, the code refers to the overlay as "AverageScatterText", which matches fowlJ's comments. IMO, the +/- in the overlay should be removed and it should be labeled as " AVG: 2.36 Tiles ", per the example abov...

Also Alketi, i'm not sure what "More or less two point twenty three tiles" is unclear? Like that sounds incredibly clear to me, and that rocket sadly deviated, in fact, all way to the lower-right all those two point three tiles in the exact way to miss entirely, very low chance- But a cha...

As nice as the HUD tooltip overlay is, where it tells you a +/- value, it's unclear what that value really means. When you see something that's +/-, everywhere else in life that implies a RANGE, i.e. MAX/MIN. Except, in the case of a LW2 rocket. And so, when someone has a +/- 2.36 scatter and they c...

Rocket scatter is up to 4 tiles, 2 with FITH. The deviation is just telling you in a simple way that your roughly 70% likely to hit within that distance. Doing some rough calculations it seems like he had an 8% chance to scatter 4 tiles, and he scattered 4 tiles. So the number presented to the play...

Are we sure that rocket scatter (either the calculation or the tooltip) are working correctly? As the floating tooltip reads +/- X tiles, I take this to mean there is X tile deviation in any direction. In the video below, the rocket has an approximately 8 tile diameter. It's roughly centered on the ...

I respectfully disagree. Yes, Serial is indeed overpowered, I don't negate that, but on the other hand we need perks like this because, I guarantee you, everytime something really bad will happen, especially now, in LW2, with the increased number of enemies, yellow alert and sound mechanic. How man...

Kubikiri must have a really strong lobby at HQ. It's gone from a never pick to a must pick. Like a Phoenix! I'm impressed.

Long Watch seems like suicide in LW2. I always took it in vanilla but would never consider it now.

Regarding the flash bang changes, I think the intent is to force the player to deal and adapt to a new non-certainty, i.e. to increase the dynamics of combat. Flash bangs will go from a last resort, to perhaps a first resort, as by using them first/preemptively you'll have an opportunity to deal wit...

There are two Faceless dark events, one where they infiltrate the Haven, and one where they're placed on Guerrilla Ops. The downside of the Haven Infiltration is that if you don't discover them to trigger a Rendezvous, they increase the likelihood of Retaliations. And, if you get a Haven Defense (sa...

Xavier hinted at most of these changes in his commentary, and I think there are some nice little buffs including the leveling perk and AWC time re-tuning. I'm fine with almost all of them. The worst thing I see on the list (by far) is the Flashbang nerf. Depending on what is considered a "stron...

karafso made an infiltration calculator that takes into account the Advent strength level, which is the mechanic that sets the floor as to how much or how little activity you will have at 200%. Make a "copy" of the spreadsheet so you can have it in your own Google account and adjust it wit...

chrisb wrote:

Alketi wrote:So, before every enemy scampers to high-cover, how would you design the opening engagement?

Remove squad concealment and make everything ITT by default.

Well, that would certainly make small squad stealth missions more interesting.

Well, yes? First of all, making lots of shots through high cover is inherently better than making few shots through high cover, so it is pretty effective in that regard, but second, I think you're misunderstanding something here: 90% of the reason Faceoff is so ridiculous is the ability to open wit...

Yep, Faceoff works great through high cover, especially with +Defense and +Tac Sense stacking. Who has time to pop "two or three" pods? Three pods? Are you guys running 0% Supply Raids? Are you setting up hour-long ambushes with True Concealment? Some of us are doing neither. Maybe if you'...

So, I've tracked down the problem and it seems reproducible only if you have Overwatch All enabled. I'm not sure what in particular in that mod causes the bug, or what weird interaction between it and LW2 does. I do have Overwatch All enabled and I am seeing the disappearing pistol problem. Interes...

Did you use an explosive on or near the vehicle?

One time, when I fired a rocket at a nearby pod I had the same result. The van looked undamaged but the door was no longer operational...

My house rules -- no underinfiltrated supply raids. V/I. I just started researching coil weapons and to do it I had to buy Alloys from the Black Market. I've been running every Troop Column as they arrive, but they only give 9 or 10 alloys, which is enough for at most 2 predator armors, let alone an...

I run my high advent strength regions (Veteran/Ironman - your mileage on Legend will vary) - with 11+ rebels: 4 intel, all others on supply - with 8-10 rebels: 4 recruit, 4 intel, 0-2 supply - with 0-7 rebels: 4 recruit, the rest in hiding Seems like a decent strategy. In a 7 rebel region what's th...

Hi, Happy March 32! I'm Nerf Man and it's a pleasure to meet me! Can we talk about how overpowered Rangers are for a minute? Sure, joinrbs makes fun of them but people are saying that he only mocks Rangers to throw off Pavonis. Other people say that he's been running a House Rules/Ranger-only shadow...

The first is relevant, as the various difficulties do indeed play rather differently. The others seem more like just elitist nonsense that shames a player for not being as skilled as others here on the forums (and being a Legend Ironman player is a high bar indeed!) When players give feedback on a ...