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@ matt price - that is not evident at all, though personal experience does seem to collaborate it to a degree. We really could use some way to distinguish Vigilance levels in a region and if they go up or down.

Vigilance is still nebulous for all intents and purposes.

Not to point the obvious, but the liberation of a region currently gives you one free Radio Tower (in the same region), as well as some pretty hefty loot and corpses from the final assault. Add to that the removal of a pip and it is actually a pretty tasty proposition. The Vigilance removal is there...

If there is no cap then it is infinite. To finish the mission you can either use the Dev Console or try to lower your graphics settings so it can properly draw the complete map and then try to EVAC.

You seem to be cutting off Smash and Grab missions too early in my opinion. If you escalate Vigilance too fast, naturally you will see more supply missions and troop columns as the aliens try to reinforce the region. If on the contrary, the region is semi-active and you have some agents on Hide, the...

If you do on average 2 Smash and Grab missions per region per month, that can net you on average 5 elirium/mission in the early game. You can use the rest of the loot to buy elirium from the black market. So the Smash and Grab missions per month can net you around 40-50 elirium, among other things. ...

You can still get elirium, though in the early missions the chance is a lot lower. However you can use the extra alloys and supplies to buy elirium crystals and cores from the Black Market.

You can always make up for the rng.

As far as I know this has been the case since the original Xcom 2 - you do not have cover against your squadmates. However the AI seems to be wiser now - they use more often their psionic powers and try to flank you if possible. And give a lot more priority to flanked targets. In hindsight, this is ...

Well, they are activated on game basis, so you could probably install the DLC afterwards and then research/ build the items and Sparks.

I would still advise to just make your decision at the start and just go with it.

You only get the choice at the beginning of a campaign - do you want the story missions or not.

There might be a way to trigger the missions using the Dev Console during a campaign, but I will personally not risk it.

Oh, XCOM 1 and Long War 1 definitely had innate height defence. Floaters were really scary just because when flying they got some 20 to 30 additional defence (some of them had DGG as well).

Better to post this in the Bug reports forum. Make sure to check the Bug reporting guidelines first, so that the dev team can get to the bottom of this sooner, rather than later.

Thank you for the save file! I loaded your save game without the mods you are using (it did gave me the warning prior to doing so) and the mission was completely bugged - there was no EVAC zone and no mission pointers. The one that you showed on the screenshot simply does appear for me. It seems the...

It would help if you can provide a bit more details what exactly is happening on your end. In general once a unit changes side, it will no longer have any cover for its new squadmates. Case in point, when you Mind Control an Alien/Advent unit, you can shoot at it without fearing that cover will help...

To provide a save file go to the filesharing service of your choice (dropbox, googledrive, zipshare, mega etc), upload the file there and just post a link here so we can download the save and have a closer look.

Can you provide a savegame or a screenshot at least? There should be crates with the green star tiles marking where to stand so you can open them.

If you want to spend hours of real time to level 1 or 2 more soldiers at the end of a mission, be my guest.

A better use of your time and soldiers would be to simply send them on another missions - you will get a lot more rewards and xp from this.

Well, now that you mention it, I am not so sure. I did spend a lot of time in Long War 1 on top of UFOs, so I might be taking that for granted.

I will give it a test on the next mission. In the XcomGameCore.ini there is only mention of an Aim height bonus.

Well, it might be hard not to pull at least 2 pods together for the first firefight. What I strive for is to activate a pod on turn 1 or 2. That way you severely limit their ability to rendez-vous with a second pod and you will have an extra turn to deal with. Make sure to get some high ground. Shar...

When you open the menu during an active campaign there is a Long War 2 sub-menu. There you can find a slider to configure the cap of the graze band. It can go all the way to 0. Granted, it will be still linear, but if you want high accuracy shots to not be penalized, just drop it down to something l...

I am playing on Commander difficulty. I have only done one Extremely Light one and it was pretty easy. I managed to pull at most 2 pods at a time and that was 4 units in total against my 6 soldiers. I took care of them in two turns. You might consider getting 1 soldier who can do some selective cont...

In version 1.2 it did give very, very little XP. I have leveled a soldier or two with the reinforcement pod at the end of a mission. In general it is possible to farm them, but you will need quite a few pods (read 10+) to make it count.

You will get more xp by simply completing more missions.

No drawbacks, it is just your personal choice whether to use them or not.

Here you go and welcome to Long War ! Q: Does the Firewalls Dark Event affect the hacking chances on security towers and mission objectives? A: It should affect the towers but not the mission objectives. The objectives themselves have a 0% of failure, you are only rolling for extra rewards. Q: What ...

Regarding the Stealth part of the mod - The main issue I personally had with Stealth in 1.2 is that it felt more like an exploit than a feature. If you can go Stealthy for the whole Forge mission or assault a Network tower only after you have penetrated the main building and shut down the relay, you...

@The Ciroth - I think you might have a botched installation of your mod. Either that or I have to really watch the stream to make sure your memory is not failiing you. Straight from XComLW_Overhaul.ini (version 1.3): +ENEMY_FLASHBANG_RESIST=(UnitName=Gatekeeper, Chance=75) +ENEMY_FLASHBANG_RESIST=(U...