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I've only had a realistic opportunity to counter ONE Dark Event. At this point I just consider them all permanent and basically ignore them.

The only ones I even notice and change my play style for are the Faceless infiltration and Rapid Response.

I took Conceal on my sword-spec Shinobi, who's normally my team's scout until the last group is revealed. This allows her to attack early, if necessary, and then re-conceal and continue scouting for the rest of the team. It's the same way I used it on a Ranger in vanilla. It's unfortunate that all t...

HAHA, I've got similar distribution - a massive shortage of scopes and a ridiculous over-abundance of stocks, which I find useless on anyone other than a Sharpshooter. I barely scraped together 3 base-level scopes to do the PG project. Unfortunately, I've only found one Advanced Scope and no Elite S...

Yeah, I watched it. My thoughts were 'and this is why you don't try to use 4-5 man combat squads past the early game'. Yep. This is why I asked in another thread whether or not people would even consider 5/6 man missions that are Light difficulty. I never run a Light difficulty Guerrilla Op. Period...

Just my opinion, but I again think there's a danger of treating the symptom and not the real problem. Hail of Bullets and Demolition are both being selected because of the large boosts that have been given to: 1. Cover value 2. Cover strength 3. Defense 4. Tactical Sense Since Sapper is so worthless...

Do the 1.2 changes only apply to new soldiers, or to existing soldiers who haven't yet revealed their upper level perks?

In my experience, attempting a "Light" Guerrilla Op (13-15 enemies) with 6 soldiers, with the intent to fight some/all of the map, dealing with a possible reveal from the "starting point drone", dealing with a serious potential for a multiple-pod activation, dealing with both the...

chrisb wrote: These prevent Sharpshooter from getting a bunch of perks that really provide little to not benefit to the class.

Instead, my Death From Above sharpshooter got all the grenade perks.

Ok so I've done several Liberation rushes by now, most of them successful, but one thing in common with all of them is that the first liberated region will spike in vigilance because of all the missions, resulting in a severe increase of ADVENT strength, resulting in the region's Haven requiring mo...

It's not though. Once you've put them in the tube, you can pull them out whenever you like. So if you look and think "It's gonna take 25 days!?!?", just pull them out again. Ah. Well, it's not at all clear that's the mechanic as the warning beforehand perhaps implies otherwise. It's never...

I dislike the mechanic and think your choices should have permanent consequences. No chance I'm going to lower it in our release versions, but mod to your heart's content. I wish the re-training time was told to the player in the popup, before choosing. It's always nice to know the price before pur...

I saw pods pathing through my deployment zone in 1.1, so that's not new. I don't know what you mean by edge-to-edge. No idea. I'm only repeating what was posted on Reddit. Personally I've never had pods path through the deployment zone on a Network Tower. The furthest they've come for me is half-wa...

Finally, whether you realize it or not, you're in a Victory Lap partly because you have no repercussions for your bad pulls. Remember that time when you popped extra pods from charging your Assault or Shinobi forward?? That would be multiple deaths or a squad wipe to someone on Ironman -- potential...

I like the idea about the GTS Officer and AWC training being interruptible and allowing the soldier to go on a mission and later return to finish it without any loss of progress, like the Psi Lab training is done. I just discovered Lib 3 (Neutralize ADVENT VIP) with nearly 9 days remaining, but the...

I dont think the dark event is as bad as people claim it is. Yes, the first time I had to deal with it I raged hard as I tried to do a "destroy device" mission the typical way. However if you know the event is active, you just have to resort to a more stealth oriented approach. Try to be ...

Yep, Rapid Response means reinforcements starting at I believe 3 turns after reveal and then roughly every 2 (sometimes 3) turns after that. It's active on my campaign now too. Might as well just take the whole month off to either do troop columns and/or stealth only missions. Regarding the Network ...

The View Squad option on the Strategic Map Mission screen shows the extra soldiers added to the squad for the mission. Great! Then it shows the squad as either infiltrating or injured or available -- even if they are infiltrating OTHER missions. Why?? - Are the exact mission soldiers unknowable by t...

The criticism of Mag Weapons comes from people comparing them to Lasers, for which they typically have one more damage point and lose the aim bonus. However, you're comparing them to ballistics, as you jumped tiers, so, of course they seem very powerful in that circumstance. Next playthrough, for co...

I use UseMyClass and I also turn off Not Created Equally. IMO, there's enough RNG in the game without accidentally rolling a blindfolded Sniper. Plus, I want to pick the classes of my Characters. BTW Desslok, I LOVE your name. Can I assume you have a similar Squad in your campaign? :D ;) [Open image...

What about sat fire? SATURATION_DESTRUCTION_CHANCE=33 So it seems each cover object in the cone has a 33% chance of being destroyed. So completely ignores the concept of environmental damage. I believe the way it works for grenades is that you need to exceed the environmental HP of the object, and ...

I kinda wish I knew the details on how many tiles away you have to be for a faceless to activate. I know it generally has something to do with being within a blue move + attack range of them. Yes, triggering can happen somewhere within their BLUE attack range. In my case, the civilian was across th...

I was doing the 3rd mission in the Liberation chain, without the Faceless Dark Event active, and I had a civilian turn into a Faceless. He actually killed a soldier when he blew up the car he was hiding behind. This was the first time I've ever had a civilian turn into a Faceless on a regular missio...

Not sure why some folks are so bent out of shape that certain abilities can make the game easier. I've seen Xavier complaining about this, but he also has a self proclaimed 1,000+ hours testing the game (it might have been hyperbole), and instinctively knows how to avoid a lot of difficult situatio...

We're looking at three things on this: 1) Reducing max allowed squad size to 8 2) Requiring a minimum infiltration % to start the mission in concealment 3) Requiring a minimum infiltration % or else the enemies start in yellow alert (able to shoot on activation) With all due respect, these are all ...

nightwyrm wrote: Reddit tells tales of Fall Back soldiers moving forward leaving himself flanked and triggering new pods.

Yep. Xavier used it on one of his missions. His guy ran FORWARD. No thanks.