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That has never happened to me, not even once. I play with NCE turned off, so it's very easy to see if any of my soldier's hack scores are higher than they should be. I just checked, and all of them have hack scores equal to the base score for their level.

There seams to be XP for using skills. And even failing. I checked several times and Hacking gets increased even if you fail a hack. Not much, but its higher next time. Is there a way to see your skills xp? Like skills with different weapons? (Not the abilites, the I-shoot-you-with-Laser-Rifle) Tha...

I run 4-5 man squads, and aim for a barracks of about 40 soldiers before psionics. That supports around 8 parallel missions. You'll do less, because of wounds, but it's still a lot. Use infiltration to pick up mission with short timers or to quickly resolve pending missions to free up soliders for ...

1) Yes 2) It's based on the number of aliens when you start the mission, not the baseline number. 3) No, extra experience is retained and you will keep leveling up every mission until your rank catches up to your xp. 4) In 1.5, kill xp will be capped at the number of aliens initially spawned on the ...

I'm not sure, but a lot? I run 4-5 man squads, and aim for a barracks of about 40 soldiers before psionics. That supports around 8 parallel missions. You'll do less, because of wounds, but it's still a lot. Use infiltration to pick up mission with short timers or to quickly resolve pending missions ...

Maybe I should talk about my build order. This game I've been prioritizing the Proving Ground, and I think that this is the way to go. I build the GTS and the PG on month one. I buy a scientist and an engineer from the black market. Sell all elerium cores and be comfortable with selling your first 3...

I don't do zero percents, but I do typically liberate by month 4, which will give you 4-5 sectoids right there. I run all Intel all the time (with brief spurts of opportunistic recruiting) in any region that has less than 12 vigilance (less than 15 vigilance if strength is high enough for troop colu...

Psi rush requires too much investment. I tried an April rush, and it worked, but lots of things work. Avenger power was a serious bottleneck, and you have to give up too many essential buildings to get psi that early. Psi makes more sense at around the 3rd or 4th supply month. At that point you prob...

Facility Leads come from the ProtectResearch activity, which is an activity that only starts spawning after AVATAR is revealed. It will generate either a Hack Workstation, Recover Item, Rescue VIP, or Extract VIP mission type. The mission will always have the "Find a Lead" descriptor, but ...

I don't know, but I always rescue all or nearly all of the rebels in those missions, and I've found the faceless to be a non-issue. I use mass Shinobi to fan out and grab rebels. They can easily support each other and rush down a Faceless that crops up, especially if the Sharpshooter has an angle to...

No, no I understood that you don't use True Concealment. I was saying that I have tried playing the game without the always on reinforcement timer, and the result wasn't very fun. The game is that way because it kind of has to be that way. I don't think I've ever had RNFs land while I was still in s...

I found Soulfire to be the least useful of their mainline abilities. I mean, it's fine, it's basically Hail of Bullets with a shorter cooldown, but like you say, it quickly becomes nothing more than a finisher. Insanity, on the other hand, gives you powerful control abilities, and can be used every ...

In vanilla, the narrative was that ADVENT could detect Firebrand and knew that something was up. It doesn't strike me as at all implausible that ADVENT would both notice and be concerned about an unmarked dropship hovering over one of their zones and would start mobilizing the local forces. I used t...

I just retired my campaign. I'll be honest, I didn't play it through to the bitter end. After finishing the Golden Path, I was so far ahead of ADVENT that I didn't bother. I was getting Coil Guns in June and had AVATAR progress slowed by 50%. Understanding how to optimize the strategy layer makes a ...

I like those mission icons. I already use some of your UI mods, but I don't have those. Which mod uses them? Or are those not released yet?

The research points stack linearly, which in turn causes the research time to decrease asymptotically. Three is 50% faster than two. Four is 33% faster than three. Etc.

If you want to maintain a useful amount of stealth in those situations, you have to have a shinobi scout. It's still not 100% reliable, and you will still get screwed by funky angles, but it gives you a fighting chance of closing with the enemy. In the specific case of a low infiltration supply raid...

1) By default, ADVENT tries to spread their legions out so that strength = vigilance in all regions. Legions can only move to adjacent regions, and each region can only receive one at a time, so it takes a while. Some situations (exposed HQ, Blacksite, etc) will cause ADVENT to want to station even ...

Glad it worked out. I think that people fear retaliations more than they merit. Even if you don't detect the data leak mission, you still get ~24 hours to prepare, and you get to send ten soldiers with no time obligations. You get experience for your soldiers, and you purge your haven of all spies. ...

Agreeing with LY that quantity trumps quality. I typically do 15-20 missions per supply cycle. But, there are definitely some missions that I either skip or put on low priority. High strength Smash and Grabs. S&G is a really good mission type, but the timer, combined with the need to fully explo...

It's not really the easier option, it's the "less rebels die" option. I would not do a Swarming timed mission under any circumstances. You caught the mission at the tail end of its duration, which is functionally equivalent to not catching it at all. Timed Swarming missions aren't strictly...

I think that I might be the only one that likes extreme Intel based strategies. Once I've hit 13 rebels in a region and have kicked up vigilance to 12 or higher, I go full Intel, with a scientist advisor and everything. By now, I will have usually done the network tower mission, so I have a radio to...

Guys, guys guys. Come on, this isn't hard to figure out. It's going be the long-awaited X-Com dating sim, where your soldiers can romance each and every alien type. Finally.

It's an issue that goes all the way back to vanilla. You've just never noticed it before. I talk about the different categories of cover bugs in this thread a bit.

About dodge chance with low graze band settings... I play with 0% graze band and noticed the same thing, and did some empirical testing. It turns out that the issue is a UI one, not a combat one. I took a soldier with 40% dodge and consoled in a bunch of health and had her eat a bunch of shots. I ne...