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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...

In the current state of the game, you want Severe as much as possible and have the avatar progress reduction % as high as possible. Once your at Severe, there's no more consequence of going higher. If your not at least at Severe then the avatar pips are going to be chugging along at near full steam ...

It's easy with this information to see just how massive the scatter falloff becomes with the extra distance, which was his biggest issue. The better play he could have made if he wanted a good rocket would have been to move much closer. He easily could have moved half a dozen tiles closer and had m...

The max scatter is listed on the bottom UI when you click Launch Rocket. I think showing the deviation is not necessarily that useful. It's fine if you understand non-linear functions and can work out what the number means, but it's not really intuitive for most people. It might be simplest to just ...

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.

Thanks chrisb for your help understanding all of this. I already had the research itself covered. So to recap it all, facilities are built As far away from any contacted region as possible In a region where Vigilance<5 and <Alert Only one at a time With a cooldown of 45-48 days As a result the firs...

No, the Sabotage is a Guerilla Op, or internally it's refered to as GeneralOps. The hack mission is not an activity type, it is just a template that is used by various activities as one of the possible templates. Full list of activities that have Hack_LW as a possible mission template. COINResearch ...

Template.ActivityCreation.Conditions.AddItem(default.AlertAtLeastEqualToVigilance); This is defined at the bottom of the file, it sets MinAlertVigilanceDiff to 0. This is used in the regional condition check. AlertVigilanceDiff = RegionalAI.LocalAlertLevel - RegionalAI.LocalVigilanceLevel; if(Alert...

This has to do with the ResearchFacility ActivityCondition. It's used in various mission types. From what I can tell in the code, this variable does not even seem to be used. There are two condition functions, one global the other regional. The global one checks if a certain variable (bRequiresHidde...

Supply raid and Liberation are not categorized as guerilla ops, they have their own spawning rules. The Sabotage(Propoganda) and Rebels(PolicitalPrisoners) are both definetly gops. Hack mission is not itself a mission category, rather it's a template. It can be either Lib 1, counter DE, 3 UFO types ...

Wait... weren't we supposed to choose our battles and so on? Devs explicitly said we can't win all of them and have to skip some. And this guy did exactly that, which means he lost a game he was playing the way it's supposed to be played. Your also not supposed to sit back and let Advent get on wit...

From what I know, melee attacks are based on your starting position. If your not flanking the unit from your starting position and they are hunkered then the bonus applies. If you flank them first, then the hunker bonus will not apply. The same thing goes for perks like Lone Wolf. Even if the ending...

Doctor Sticks wrote:Yea, but now I will cry about having to choose between Revival and Combat.

Revival is the only one that is not replaceable by any other ability. Combat is just dmg, anyone can do that.

In 1.3, fixed evac missions will change this by having this timer start at the very beginning. You will see the RNF UI from the beginning as well only it is green to start with. When the internal value reaches 0.5 it turns yellow then red at 1. The number of turns it takes to hit 1 depends on diffi...

Can anybody explain to me why Marbozir lost his campaign (which was played on veteran btw)? I followed his playthrough. He hadn't any squad wipes or lost many soldiers (only 13 guys lost in total as you can see in the final stats). Tactically his gameplay was sound, but he still lost, and I don't g...

The AWC Scientist makes your guys heal 50% faster (on all difficulties other than Rookie). It doesn't make their healing take 50% less time. The actual effect is for healing to take 33% less time. I believe Field Surgeon works on your base health, not your health after armor, so it is probably bett...

Well, you inspired me to try your solution, so I turned Commanders Choice off and started new campaign, beaten Gatecrusher, saved game and begin my experiments. Well, generally it worked, I got better average results, but still, only 2-3 soldiers will go to my A-team and most of them end up as back...

I don't know the specifics of his campaign since I haven't followed it. Based on some of the stats he showed from his final episode, he basically lost due to a lack of vigilance. 80 missions in 12 months is very low and it's likely his avatar progress was chugging away at full steam. In any campaign...

... The reinf timer only starts ticking at the start on missions with a fixed evac ... I'm not sure I understand this right. You want promote small squad missions by dropping reinforcements even before start of actual fighting? It's not that there is reinforcements dropping at the beginning. Reinfo...

Pretty sure it was always like that. You won't see the 'Disorient' popup, but they will be disoriented the next turn. I've chain CCed with flashbangs on many a Rendezvous

Doctor Sticks wrote:I cry everytime I have to choose between Combat Protocol and Medical Protocol.

You won't have to in 1.3

Who says the squad, even as I play it, is near bloody perfect? No control over AWC skills, facing the same soldier skills trade-offs, facing which tech gets researched to improve their kit, etc. But if as Commander I don't decide what class a soldier becomes, who does? The Magic XCOM Faeries? Part ...

Though I think this is a bit of a problem with the entire end game tech tier, game feels like it ends around Tier 3 Armor + Coil Weapons, and there is little reason to wait around doing research instead of just finishing the golden path. Just give me a reason to use something other than flashbangs ...

I like the idea of being able to move them around. Sort of brings back some of the 'fleet' management from the air game. The hard part is balancing once you do that. It opens up potential for exploiting a lot of the strategy layer and so it would require some careful thought about how it got impleme...