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This thread has been OK'd by Johhnylump It is a continuation of the prior thread, to discuss dark events, their implementation, and the effects on the game... without getting snippy at commentators. It's a fair point, but the logical extreme of resolving that issue is a fully scripted campaign, whic...

trihero wrote:It means you can go on doing what you were doing before with no penalty.

I think there might be some delay (2 weeks) before they can do the same retaliation again, according to xwynns who has inside information.

what is the penalty?

I don't understand do you guys actually like Sparks that much? They don't seem that great to me (except you know, their main gun is strong as hell now.) Resistance to crits + 30 base defense + Aid protocol(minimum 20 defense) means that you have an up armored unit with effective heavy cover (or bet...

Sapper/needle grenades: Heat/tandem: Combat engineer versus/full kit: The solution depends mainly on how many explosive focused grenadiers you're expecting to bring, and what you're expected to do with them. The fewer grenadiers you're bringing the more you want to move towards Sapper/Heat/and (cou...

in the context of an entire mission for the 8 damage, spread randomly around targets that may or may not need it. Compared to 1 HP that almost certainly will, at some point, save that units life. In general you're going to get hit probably 1-3 times per (serious) mission, on average. Sometimes more....

Not... Really? I mean you either have something that works 100% on chance, or you have something that works 100% of the time. Formidable will get more use. Formidable requires you to get hit. It's only 100% to use if you're planning to get hit on every mission, or multiple times. Whereas with Bring...

Just managed to take out the Regional HQ in West Africa, and had a workstation hack mission immediately following... ended up getting three reinforcement drops starting around turn 7, and coming in EVERY turn following. pretty sure securing a region is supposed to do the direct opposite. When you s...

Do you play on easy? Its disabled on easy. 2) Pod runs into player during aliens' turn. Pod breaks formation, dives for cover. That's one move, and since it's the aliens' turn, they shoot with their second move. Just like normal. You are counting this different from Goumindong. He counts it like th...

I'm not sure if this is a long war thing or a vanilla thing but evidently enemies know the exact position of my troops all the time. I'm not talking about "enemies moving towards us during concealment" feature btw. My problem is that for example; i have 2 soldiers behind a train and on th...

1) They patrol into you. This is a movement 2) They take their spread movement to head to cover. This is a second movement 3) sometimes they shoot at you. This is a third action . I have yet experience this even once. Bug report time? Do you play on easy? Its disabled on easy. Otherwise i don't kno...

mattprice516 wrote:I believe OW in XCOM 2 does have a to-hit penalty. Just not when firing from concealment.

It seems i was wrong. Even then the OW is quite valuable once you get >1 shot. I was considering the value of not shooting at a covered target.

They can not shoot at you with those actions unless they have either seen corpses or heard things that you did. All they can do is defensive stuff if they just walk into you without being on alert. I don't think they do it nearly enough on Legend. Immaterial. They still get three actions. It still ...

Worth noting that the "givescientist" and "giveengineer" commands only spawn one engineer or scientist. The "number" is the "quality" of the engineer from 1 to 10. Not sure what the baseline quality is but you will get one if you enter the text with no modifie...

In a sense yes. And maybe if aliens were restricted in their initial movement. But otherwise what happens is that 1) They patrol into you. This is a movement 2) They take their spread movement to head to cover. This is a second movement 3) sometimes they shoot at you. This is a third action. This is...

You have so many high ranking soldiers you can afford to put rapid reaction rangers in havens? At what point in the game is this? No. But i will. My experience with the ever-vigilant failing the ranger was from testing. Edit: The easiest way to force reaction fire is to either A: Flank the unit you...

- Any Find A Lead (FAL) mission with " Intel Package " as a reward is either a POI or a Facility lead (you need these to discover the Alien Research Facilities and Blacksite). Given Intel is a resource earned and spent through missions, I feel like "Intel Package" could have a b...

trihero wrote:You have so many high ranking soldiers you can afford to put rapid reaction rangers in havens? At what point in the game is this?

No. But i will.

My experience with the ever-vigilant failing the ranger was from testing.

Like Gunner, Specialist, Ranger going heavy on the reaction fire perks? I'm trying to see the silver lining but I find that if you are aiming for the late game when the enemy gets really crazy hp units, you don't want to be relying on reaction shots on those. I could maybe see a use for a gunner th...

yes

On the knife, you guys are mirroring internal discussions we had on it. We thought about ammo packs, but in the end, it wasn't that interesting to me; it's just a tech-based upgrade path for the LMG (basically like the Psi Amp, but applied to the primary weapon), and between all the other ways you ...

deacon already has a big handy post on exactly this topic; http://www.pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=23754 Oh my god its terrible "This first mission will not have a label, so you will not know that it is the beginning of the Liberation Chain until you complete it"...

Cloista wrote:I was under the impression that Serial still refunded both AP on kills with the sniper rifle?

Yes but not cooldowns

Anyway. I think that the implementation you want isn't possible with how weapons work. But not sure

OK. So on my previous game i got a "lead" pretty early. But got bogged down in "liberating a region" because i had started in Asia. (and decided to restart) But i don't actually know how this occurred. At my current game its July 17. I've run probably 30 missions and more or less...

Its not a bad idea, if its possible.

But ideally it would have to have a 0 turn cooldown. Otherwise its not usable with serial, (which i believe was the intention)

I would LOVE to see a video of what a Swarming Supply Raid looks like. So we know how much to prepare. Also, don't grenadiers have a finite number of grenades. I've got to imagine that once you run out, you're pretty much screwed. Yes but they get 4 to 5 each and you can eventually get 2-3 more wit...