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I agree, -40 to Aim and no secondary abilities would be more elegant.

Maybe 50% chance that the fire goes out if unit Hunkers (or takes no offensive actions), too.

What about a simple change from one "Flashbanged" status to two: - Flashed (-30 Aim) - Mildly Flashed (-15 Aim) where a Flashed unit becomes Mildly Flashed after one turn, and a Mildly Flashed unit goes back to normal after one turn. A Flashbang could randomly assign one of the two statuse...

What we have now: AP Rounds ignore 2 armor. Stiletto, Flechette and Needle Rounds do a base +1 damage and 1 more damage to specific targets." (as of 1.3) Is +1 base, +1 specific damage really enough to compete with AP Rounds? Pretty much all late-game priority targets will have armor, so it se...

Have y'all internally tested making picking up/putting down bodies free actions, but also imposing a mobility penalty while carrying a unit?

I like the realism and always mod this through *.ini. Have y'all tried it and rejected this in LW2?

This got me thinking: what if when you grab a package on a Smash & Grab mission, you learn right away, realtime , what's in it? No, you learn what it is at the end of the mission. Also, the rewards are randomly chosen at the start, and there's nothing preventing multiples of the same reward Rig...

Smash and Grab is a step in the right direction, one thing I've noticed is that if you don't have viable supply raids and don't get troop maneuvers you run out of stuff very very fast with little to no way of restocking, particularly in regards to elerium, so this is a good thing. This got me think...

Why aren't the corresponding numbers of enemies simply included in the text?

Another (possibly easier-to-implement) idea would be to make "Neutralize all enemies" an optional objective on stealth-able missions, offering greater rewards (Intel? Supplies? Corpses?) at greater risk.

Is there a way to see notifications in the geoscape? Stuff like x got recruited somewhere. These notifications usually happen in bunch but only last for a couple of seconds, most of the time by the time I notice them they're already vanishing and I have no way of checking what just happened. Very f...

chrisb wrote:In XComLW_Outposts.ini at the top.

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DEFAULT_REBEL_JOB="Hiding"

Thanks! Works for me.

Is there anything in the works in terms of setting a default task that new Resistance personnel will do upon recruit? This could be set globally or (ideally) per-location: e.g., any new Resistance personnel recruited to a region will copy the job of the last/furthest-down personnel member in that re...

Destroy prototype This mission would counter a dark event. The idea would be to limit the squad to 5-6 and the goal would be to kill a specific enemy on the map equipped with the dark event upgrade. For example, you have to kill 3 mutons centurion with poisoned rounds. The setting would be an adven...

1. When an infiltration mission hits 100% the time will pause (or rather slow back down to normal) but there is no visual indication that some trigger has happened. It would be good to have a popup or focus on the infiltration mission that prompted the slow. It might be easier to code this as "...

The answers should be 34% and 10%, respectively. In the first instance you have a net 30 Crit, so 30% of your 40% hits and 30% of your graze band are upgraded on the shot map. In the second instance dodge and crit completely negate one another and you have only the graze band to calculate. Nope. Fr...

50% crit in Long War means 50% of your hits will be crits. If you have 40% to hit, then you have 20% to crit. That's half. It also means that half of your grazes will be hits instead. Dodge does the opposite. If the enemy has 20 dodge, and you have 50% to hit, then 10% of your hits will be grazes, ...

IMO LW2's system makes way more sense than vanilla's linear system. I agree! I just don't like the current system's "Your chance of dealing any damage to the target is your displayed chance to hit, plus 10%... unless the target has Dodge, in which case it's somewhat less. How likely you are to...

That's not true. At the moment, increasing your crit (through flanking or any other means) also reduces the chance to graze. True, but not as effectively, right? At present, you can never under any circumstances eliminate Graze against any target with positive Dodge, unless you have literally 100 C...

and why would you want a linear system anyway isn't it better to have more variance? There is more variability here: instead of Graze almost always being 20% likely to happen, now you can reduce (or even eliminate) the %chance graze by increasing your To-hit or Crit. This would open up more interes...

If you have a displayed 73% to hit, then you have a 63% chance of doing at least 3 damage. You also have an 83% chance of doing at least 1, which can be very relevant dealing with foes who just wouldn't die to the previous attack. This is just unnecessarily complicated. Either change the UI so it s...

I spent a couple days working a more straightforward system that still captures much of the same feel as LW2's Crit/Hit/Graze framework and is much simpler (I think) to understand. In pictures: (1) http://i.imgur.com/SmmGgmI.png (2) http://i.imgur.com/LHAuNAC.png To play with the numbers yourself (a...

7% chance to hit => 14% chance of graze, 86% chance of miss (7% of hits downgraded to grazes, and 7% of misses upgraded to grazes – so 14%, not 17%) 98% chance to hit => 4% chance of graze, 96% chance of miss (2% from hits, 2% from misses – so 4%, not 12%) first of I assume you meant hit and not mi...

I apologize if this has been answered elsewhere; I did a quick search and didn't find anything. Intuitively, to keep Graze "balanced" (i.e., approximately as helpful as it is hurtful), I would assume that (with 0 Dodge and Crit for simplicity) 7% chance to hit => 14% chance of graze, 86% c...

2) Requiring a minimum infiltration % to start the mission in concealment Probably not practical, but one idea would be % infiltration = % of your squad that starts concealed (rounded probabilistically to one of the nearest integers, e.g. 4 soldiers who achieve 55% infiltration start with 2 conceal...

I would randomize both ammo and grenades as in vanilla in the early game, but unlock individual ones (as it is now) behind mid-game techs (or maybe quick Proving Grounds projects).

Either way, the "exotic" ammo types could definitely use some love!

To disincentivize large underinfiltrated squads, just punish < 100% infiltrated missions further. If < 100% infiltrated, x% infiltrated = (100–x)% of enemies spawned get +2 to forcelevel 70% infiltrated = 30% of enemies spawned get +2 to forcelevel 50% infiltrated = 50% of enemies spawned get +2 to ...