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Correct me if im wrong, the invasion mission is much more difficult than regular retaliation in not liberated region. As usually invasion means that u lost at least half of you resistance staff(if u lucky), when in non liberated region you have chance get haven defence instead of classic terror mis...

Missing the point. OP's concern is that if you get Covering Fire as your level one perk, you must train it - even if you don't want that effect - in order to get access to the higher-level perks. Either they have to make do with a perk that is not desirable for that build, or they have to take a do...

Depends on what I am doing. I generally have three builds. 1) Overwatch: for stealth missions CuP : Revival : suppression : ever vigilant : sentinel : scanning : - Reasons: only doing a small amount of hacking and it won't have penalties for failing. Will potentially get in situations where you want...

Any overwatch based soldier should have a PCS chip that requires a 50% chance or better before they fire. Building an overwatch soldier without one of those chips is just asking for sadness. Missing the point. OP's concern is that if you get Covering Fire as your level one perk, you must train it -...

Remember that 1) Swords only use one action to attack. So against an adjacent target you can attack twice 2) Fleche grants bonus damage based on the distance between you and the target, which can easily make up the difference in base damage. Swords were definitely weak in Vanilla; where they did not...

Who used the "only take overwatch shots on %" PCS? If you are doing an OW, you should be using something like situational awareness of hyper-reactive pupils or something. I do. All the time. They're only 5 supplies, benefit a lot of units, and for a good portion of the game your units won...

elite stock = 25% (set up steady weapon on a prior turn), base plasma lance = 20%, flanking = 40%, aggression is up to 30% based on enemy squad size, what you're already past 100%? Was I even trying that hard? (no laser scope/talon rounds) I prefer covert in that slot because it allows you to more ...

Hunters targeting only applies on flanks, and not on exposed targets. Its very good if you can get yourself to a position where enemies will flank themselves against your sniper, but otherwise not that great. Amazing for snapshot snipers. Kubikuri seems like its hard to maximize crit... but its real...

Is the damage curve really that big a deal? Its 1 HP per hit. And you have to spend resources to get it on those units.

Maybe go armor first. So that you've got better punch from secondary abilities? And also a bit of up on the incoming damage curve

Thanks for that on Low Profile! How about Long Watch? If the soldier has AWC overwatch perks, then yeah, and Alpha Mike Foxtrot usually too. But taking it passes up Deadshot. Is it worth the trade? Kind of weak. The problem with Long Watch is that there are very few times you're going to want to pu...

It seems consistent with the grenade changes. Basically, less of a chance that your soldier shooting through the floor to get at someone will then CREATE A HOLE IN SAID FLOOR, then FALL THROUGH THE FLOOR, and then KILL THEMSELVES FROM FALL DAMAGE. Though I still have a grenade throw destroying crat...

I was on a mission to subdue or kill a dark vip. I assassinated him because I only had 2 men for the mission. However, I noticed that my crit chance was not that high because I did not have a flanking bonus. Is this normal and a vanilla mechanic? Why wouldn't I get a flanking bonus if he was not in...

They're amazing.

The weird thing is, i saw no way through for my shinobi, on that first room. Only way i could see would be to break stealth by smashing windows. That is possible ( had a room like that i had to go around). But if you have a shinobi you can break it with a regular unit and then move the shinobi thro...

I was doing it on Commander, and one of the several DE's that were applying to my squad, was rapid reinforcements. The setup people are recommending would not work when you constantly have pods dropping in on your snipers position. Because of the way the bridges are designed it is not difficult to ...

Stability in difficulty (which leads to fun, since players are less likely to encounter random elements which take away from their enjoyment of the game) is good and requires an understanding of the math

If you're not firing when you have ammo its because the enemy moved immediately to a position which broke line of sight (or if you had a PCS: Overwatch(X) in and didn't meet the required to-hit) Edit: Overwatch shots will count cover if you're in it when you get shot. Note that moving out of cover w...

Yes Thanks for the detailed reply! Sounds like a worthy investment then... Couple of further questions... they sound helpful but HOW much of a battlefield impact? Would you rush mechanised warfare or just coast till lost tower? And what is the impact on infiltration? 1.34x infiltration cost compare...

Well I feel better now knowing that evac missions do not yield any corpses. I do mostly get those missions at this point. One more thing do attacks that would normally destroy loot also remove the chance of the corpse to drop? Also thanks for all the feedback. It appears so yes. So focus heavily on...

Yes. Especially if you're set with specialists: two specialists can perma- aid protocol, which gives your spark 50 defense, the same as an average unit in high cover. Even when aided the spark tends to get shot at a lot. Which is handy because they have high armor and good ablative hit points. Plus ...

I wanted to double check a few things and make for sure I did not mess up my game with A Better ADVENT: Long War mod. First off is there a trick or tactic to get more corpses to drop from missions or is the 100% RNG? I have only had two Advent Stun Lancer Corpse so far and I really need to be makin...

Burning is a very powerful debuff in LW2. Aside from the damage over time it disables all actions. The AI reacts to it by running back and forth, which i highly exploitable via overwatch. Try starting a fight by ambushing a whole pod with the flamer, you basically win as soon as you confirm the abi...

@Goumindong, you're not technically wrong about the math but I'd advise you to try it out before making conclusions like "this just won't work" based purely on theorycrafting. If the probability of any given dark event going through is high enough, the variance shrinks pretty fast. EV of ...

Our framework in designing and balancing these was and will remain "Incremental, permanent upgrades to aliens that XCOM will sometimes have a chance to counter." We used the Dark Event mechanism to give you that opportunity to counter them. Our balancing assumption is that most of them wi...

bingo12345 wrote:

johnnylump wrote:Off the top of my head, I think it would affect Flush but not Arc Thrower.

I have never missed above 80% shot of arc thrower still at graze band 20% setting.

Could be random. An 80% shot with a 20% graze band should be 70% hit, 20% graze iirc