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I don't understand your reasoning for the "grain of salt" comment either, and frankly..that does reek of condescending remarks. Snare missions are not difficulty dependent, right? So what would that have anything to do with whether someone could voice an opinion or not? Am I misunderstand...

Actually, after thinking about it, I think the best solution (forget who suggested it) is simply a message in the Commander's Quarters, along the lines of: "While ADVENT mostly acts responsively to XCOM activity, we should be sure to not become complacent in our operations. If ADVENT has high s...

I don't think you're putting 2 and 2 together about my post. I'm stating that while it may be extremely obvious to those that are explicitly looking for them ( like skilled players ) ...it's not as simple as "you run into once, and never again". I stated the faceless as a precursor to som...

In my own defense, I still get surprised by faceless whenever it happens ( well..usually the first few times per campaign ), because I actually don't spend much of my time being paranoid that every civilian I run into may be a threat. I get frustrated by hidden faceless too -- but I think the tempo...

...you can make it so you have to piece together a few of a particular type of salvage to make it equal to a real one, which would make sense if you are say..salvaging several different pieces of a plasma rifle from different missions. You can "assemble" the parts of a dinosaur together o...

I agree, but is there a good solution? I mean they can set up a totally separate mod like Zloth was suggesting, but that is a pretty inelegant solution, requiring all those who do want to update (probably a much bigger proportion than those who don't ) to uninstall 1.2 and download the entirety of 1...

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but the lack of proper animations and prohibitive time it would take to make them is a major reason. Animations are indeed glitchy with most aliens. If we take into account only the aliens that would be more or less around standard human in weight (makes no sense...

@Antifringe: Think you misread my post. I said "I disagree that VOs are a good solution." No, no I get that. We both think VOs are a bad idea. The confusion comes from me saying "VOs are a bad idea," you quoting me saying "VOs are a bad idea" and then saying "I di...

No not directly -- However, any mission done in a region raises the vigilance in that region by 1. Advent will only move strength out of a region if one of the bordering regions has high vigilance. If you want to decrease strength in a region, there are three ways: Do "Ambush Troop Column"...

@Antifringe: Think you misread my post. I said "I disagree that VOs are a good solution." @LordYanaek: You make a good point about VOs, perhaps they would do the job if done right. Although I bet my idea of just editing the mission briefing popup's text would be far easier to code. Like yo...

Totally agree with the Rookie Ironman campaign, with a restart when 1.3 comes out. It will allow you to get your feet wet, learn some of the ins/outs, and experiment without risking much. I mean... If you start to death spiral, who cares? You were going to start a new campaign anyway. It will also g...

I may be wrong but i think "voice-over shenanigans" would actually be easier to code than a special post-mission pop-up (provided they use existing lines). Also if the only information comes after the mission you'll see as many complains because it comes "too late", "the de...

Woah, calm down - who said anything about blaming the testers? If you read what I actually wrote, I place the fault squalrely at the doorstep of the devs thensleves. All I'm saying is that the testers are too close to the issue to see a problem, because they know the inner workings too well. That's...

I thought the same thing when I played my first campaign -- "Why can you even bring 10 (or even 9) people if it's going to take that long to infiltrate?" However, the Large Squad Infiltration upgrade found in the GTS helps incredibly with that, making 8-10 soldier squads far more viable. A...

Losing a game that you played for an hour can be a fun learning experience. Losing a game that you played for weeks is never fun. For you, that is. I, and many others, feel quite the opposite. I just enjoy playing games, I don't care much if I win or lose. If anything, losing is a challenge to impr...

Exactly. What *is* over-complicating is discussing vigilance, and its balance with regional strength, and which missions types add how much, etc. The player just needs to work towards being able to do truckloads of missions if they don't want to lose the game. That's it. The hard part is wording tha...

I'm getting the feeling we're over-complicating things here. The basic strategic directive in not only Long War 2, but Long War 1 as well, is: "Do as many missions as you are able to do without losing soldiers, and spend all available resources on things that enable you to more safely do more m...

I wasn't trying to brag by explaining how I figured out, I was just pointing out that it is in fact possible with the tools they have given us to figure it out without looking online. I think we can safely say that an overabundance of information would hurt the gameplay experience, not help it. &quo...

Normal resistance rebels provide 1 supply per day on the supply job. I'm not convinced 21 supply per supply drop is game breakingly powerful. You can get up to 1000 supply per supply drop with just a couple liberated regions working supply. If anything, it seems like a very, very small safety net t...

Problem with 0% supply raids is not just corpses, although that is certainly part of it. Primary issue is that it spikes vigilance so high, and you are doing them at 0% so you can do a ton of them breaking the avatar progress and really just the alien AI in general. Secondary issue is the silly amou...

Just registered to post in response to this, because it's been bothering me a lot. There's a problem with writing manual entries to look like flavor text. If you already know what it means, then it seems super obvious, but if you don't know what it means, it doesn't mean anything. When I first read...

Opening with a flashbang is underappreciated I feel. It is actually quite powerful. Not only is there the obvious benefit of CC'ing the entire pod, but additionally, the disorient affects the pod's scatter range. This takes away the agency of the movement AI, putting them in half cover, or spots tha...

A Shinobi takes serial for a flank-spec. You must take Hunter's Instinct for it to work, and Shadowstrike helps. Tactical procedure is: Scout an isolated enemy pod Sneak the shinobi around the other side, find cover with good LoS (Low Profile helps here) Activate the pod with main squad (Preferably ...

Hey Bu6613man, thanks for your post! I really like your ideas for the structure of subclasses, one subclass-defining perk at the end of each tree, with a pool that is chosen from randomly. I'd like to keep the hidden perk functionality as close to its current implement as possible, so I like the ide...

Introduction Perk trees in the AWC are highly variant. Sometimes, you will get three perks of little to no use. Other times, you will get an incredibly powerful combination, which, while fun, can sometimes even outshine other classes. Still other times, two amazing non-grenade perks will be hiding ...