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I liked LW1's alien perk system a lot better because I could at least go around F1ing each enemy that I had autopsied and check their perks with no issue. No guesswork on who rolled what, as long as I could get vision of them before engaging. As far as I know, I cannot do that in LW2. Here you go! ...

The LoS issue is inherent to the game, there`s a mod that fixes it somewhat called less silly lines of sight or something to that effect. That particular mod, surprisingly, is already added to LW2. What it does is change one parameter in the game, by default generating the maps is multithreaded (or...

native Implementations of: - Perfect Information https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=625737801 - Additional Icons https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=646244015 - Cost based ability colors https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=651306416 - Show e...

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...

To add here, any perk that works with squadsight REQUIRES you to have squadsight for it to work in that range.

I agree with you. On paper it sounds like there is such grand variance that adds so much to the game. But when I'm playing the game, what I want to know is the likelihood of my 3-5 damage shot killing a guy with 3 hp. So, functionally, it makes for an incredibly frustrating experience. That likelih...

For what's worth the information the screen displays is the finalized value with the exception of the graze band on the accuracy.

1.- Shinobi Lone Wolf: When using fleche, in order to apply the bonus wich tile counts? the starting or the ending tile of the movement? 2.- AWC Close and Personal: Is the critical bonus applied when using knives, swords and axes? 3.- Technical Heavy Weapons: Is this ability affected by AWC abiliti...

I have to disagree on a couple of points here. First off, the game needs more missions like the HQ raids, not less. In fact I with those made up the bulk of mid-late game missions. Also, sniping relays is, in fact, epic as he'll. Actually sniping anything from across the map is the absolute best, st...

Didn't really pick up most of the conversation but! Phantom on a holotarget sharpshooter is great, lets them keep marking with impunity and they serve as a backup scout when your shinobi inevitably fails That's breaking the First (and of course Second) Rule of XCOM Club: Don't Get Hit. Plan to have...

Didn't really pick up most of the conversation but! Phantom on a holotarget sharpshooter is great, lets them keep marking with impunity and they serve as a backup scout when your shinobi inevitably fails

Sure in a vaccuum combat protocol looks the same as soulfire. For one thing though, not everyone praises combat protocol. I would much rather pick one of the other two options, for But for sake of argument, you have to look at the context - where do you first get these skills, and what is the class...

I see all those Soulfire complaints
Yet a lot of praise for Combat Protocol

What gives?

I didn't - just theorizing a bit. I never got around to building that dedicated retaliation expert, because I had to start a third campaign and am only in mid July at the moment. My first run was full of mistakes, so I quit it, and even the second time around I was working on a lot of false assumpt...

It probably would help of psi ops weren't level throttled and you had some indication of how many levels they actually got and just need tank time.
This way you can just decide when to stop interrupting training with missions and plop them in the tank for a while.

Maybe is a stupid question, but I couldn't find it on UFOpaedia. How much is the reduction of a graze? Is the half, the 33% or how much? And is it rounded up or down? For example a regular shot of 3-5 damage will deal a graze damage of... It's half damage, just as it was in vanilla. Isn't it docume...

It works the same way that the Sectoid Commander's Mass Reanimation does, it'll target any bodies it can see as long as it is on yellow alert. Due to the way most combats go you are usually standing on a pile of dead bodies, though, since you're advancing forward through the area you cleared, so it'...

I'm playing on 1.1 and yeah, flamethrowers get blocked by cover all the time. They're useless. All the risk of getting up in the ayys faces without any of the payoff that a 100% to hit, high crit, close encounters assault has. The technical is straddling two completely contradictory roles - they're...

JL browses a lot but rarely posts anyway - I imagine most of his time spent working on LW2-related stuff is for 1.2 prep. Ditto Ami and tracktwo. Sitting around on forums is counterproductive when you got bugs to fix and suchlike. New opening needed: Professional PR guy to deal with the ravenous sa...

Goumindong wrote:Bunker Buster(firestorm seems... well strong but god how do you use it safely?)

Blue move, quick burn, firestorm, yellow move out.

You can do that all by yourself: add +AllowedWeapons=(SlotType=eInvSlot_PrimaryWeapon, WeaponType="rifle") in the xcomclassdata.ini where the sharpshooter is. Note that this will allow him to use SMGs and ARs together with squadsight and while the SMG range table drops aim at long distanc...

AWC will not in fact award a perk that is already in their skill tree. I'm curious to see how that may change in 1.2. From the patch notes: - AWC cross-training restrictions reconfigured to exclusively use perk triggers (rather than currently bugged class restrictions). Should see a lot more option...

They get super hard really fast on legend. I peaked in a network tower mission on legend in october in a strength 10 advent region (this is about average at this stage in the game for regions you have done missions in), and holy smokes...21 hp elite officers with 1 armor pip....scouts with 100 aim....

Balance of rewards aside I really hope that they don't make 0% supply raids unfeasible or undesirable in any way, those missions are immensely fun, they are the kind of firefight that I wish every mission on the game was. Even from a narrative standpoint it makes sense, you're supposed to win this r...

Some Dark Events are permanent. There is a mod, An Easier War, which makes permanent Dark Events last 2 months at most. It preserves some of the difficulty without it totally snowballing. Can this mod work with LW2 ? Some DEs are not that threatening. But for example, are: -hp boost -armor boost -m...