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It's of course a rare constructed scenario - although, with 250k subscribers and campaigns that take 100+ missions to complete, how rare will it actually be? This thread was more born out of the frustration of yet another 2 incidents of static percentage rolls that the player can not influence makin...

It's hypothetical world, in which two players, player A and B, end up in exactly the same situation on exactly the same mission. It's a troop column, things got slightly out of hand, and with only a few soldier actions remaining they try to make the best out of this situation: Player A launches a St...

Let me start with saying that I realize that the Alien Rulers are optional DLC content, so spending time on them only benefits a small subsection of the players that actually has this content bought and enabled. That being said, I think they deserve another look. I also realize that this is anecdota...

Had this happen in vanilla, too. Marking eats up the untouchable charge (but the soldier at least shouldn't be marked in this case).

LW2 1.3 upgraded to 1.4 Completed a mission in which I had an officer with collector. During the mission I skulljacked an enemy for a small intel cache and also received a small intel cache reward from hacking the objective. Several kills during the mission created the "Collector +1 Intel"...

Randomised damage rolls. Randomised scatter in the case of rockets. Damage rolls can be influenced by the player, both on the Strategic and the Tactical Level: Weapon choice (SMG vs. Rifle) Equipment choice (special ammo types) Talent choice (center mass, lethal) Combining attacks on a target to Sh...

Shots already miss. Vital shots you must hit. The shot percentage is something that you as a player can influence. You can decide if you want to rely on a 90% shot or if you want to Holotarget that just to be sure. You have the option to run in for a bigger proximity bonus with the risk of adding a...

I can't see how you could conclude that DfA is the problem from watching that video. Heck, one of the snipers in the video has a Rapid Targeting spec. Any Sniper spec is able to take out any amount of enemies in that situation, since you have: unlimited time (no RNFs) enemies with no idea where you ...

While we are at it: can we talk about Chameleon Suits? I know they were slightly overpowered in 1.1/1.2, but they are kind of worthless right now. You can leave an equipment slot empty on your soldier to shave off 1 hour from most infiltrations, or you can spend a significant amount of supplies and ...

Just had the same thing happen: skulljacked a 25 HP Elite Officer, he survived with 5 HP.

As I understood it it's a flat +50% increase, not a 50% multiplier, so if you infiltrated to 55% completing the liberation would set it to 105%.

Check if there's actually any doom on the fortress to begin with. If all your doom is coming from facilities and nothing is on the fortress then there's nothing you can remove to begin with.

Two pods is not the problem I'm pretty sure. Here's an example from 1.2 with a 2 pod activation. Panic from the Flamethrower seems more likely.

I remember watching DerAva videos in 1.2 of and seeing how poorly a Gunner Kill Zone performed (i.e. never taking clearly open shots), and now I've seen the same thing in my first use in 1.4. Haven't yet unlocked Kill Zone in 1.3/1.4 but I'm not really sure I had too many issues with it in 1.2. I r...

Given the thread title I was expecting a discussion on how the getting the first engineer and the first scientist is too random, since they are super important to get excavations and certain research going. There's a reason the base game gives these as guaranteed rewards from the first GOP/Council m...

Don't get too used to this, in 1.5 kill xp will be capped to the same number used for mission xp. If you get a mission schedule with 10 enemies, kill xp will stop after the squad's 10th kill. I understand that farming reinforcements shouldn't be encouraged, but at the same time this really punishes...

I only take missions with infiltration times of 7.5 days or longer, and usually bring as many soldiers as I can while still being able to infiltrate at least 100%. This one seems weird to me. 7.5 days as the threshold probably means you are skipping a lot of missions, which in turn means that your ...

Just to add some datapoints from my ongoing L/I campaign: April 26th: Datatap, 2 Rebels lost, 1 Soldier lightly injured May 20th: Haven Defense, 4 Rebels lost, no injuries June 7th: Datatap, 0 Rebels lost, 2 Soldiers gravely injured June 20th: Haven Retaliation, 3 Rebels lost, 2 Soldiers wounded Jul...

Soldiers will recruit new rebels if you set them as an advisor in that haven.

trihero wrote:Yes hiding rebels can get promotions,

Which can get a bit tedious. Since promoted rebels are better at their job you have to check back to your larger havens from time to time to make sure no promoted rebel is stuck in hiding while an unpromoted one is out hunting for supplies.

The current trend seems to be to not assign haven advisors and then simply skip the mini retaliation missions, write off the lost rebels and replace them with the next jailbreak. It doesn't seem worth it to risk 9 soldiers on a recruitment retal only to save 4 rebels.

but in the case of a Supply Raid in particular, either the region they occur in or the region that is sending the supply convoy, whichever is higher I feel like this is a huge issue right now, since there is almost no way of knowing which region the source is. So you can't really make an informed d...

Well, i don't know what "many people" think as i'm not in their mind but to me ± always meant "more or less" which is the same as "approximately". Well, when someone tells me "I'll pick you up at 8:00, +/- 5 minutes", then I'd expect them to be there at some ...

Until you get that Retaliation and then you're scanning with 7 rebels

No turrets either (I think the Tactical Kill Counter mod doesn't count them either way).