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There are three different UFO reinforcement activities. You have a force UFO, an emergency UFO and a super emergency UFO. Each one starts with a preliminary mission, which if completed unlocks the UFO mission. ScheduledOffWorldReinforcements comes every 15 days and tries to increase Force Level thro...

By default you need the same level as the level of the skill to train it. Squaddie counts as level 1. You'd need Corporal to train a level 3 offensive or defensive skill.

RealityMachina released a mod patch for the Bastion issue, which should hold everyone over until then: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... =933334693

Yes, it isn't a replacement for a Shinobi. That is exactly what I was saying and thanks for agreeing. Just because they have 1 perk on their entire tree that lets them stealth a little while longer, does not mean that you should try and stealth for the entire mission or even much of it. If a strateg...

OK. Lets start from the basics then. How does healing work? When a wounded soldier returns to the avenger, the game creates a healing project for them. The first thing the healing project does is get that soldiers lowest health in the mission (healing a soldier back up during the mission does nothin...

It varies due to flight time. The Skyranger takes a little time to drop off the squad and that time is a little unpredictable due to the random positioning of missions on the map relative to the avenger landing point in each region. 2-3 hours is often enough. Sounds like you found a particular missi...

To start the activity that leads to a retaliation you need:

Intel: 3 alert, 2 vigilance
Supply: 4 alert, 1 vigilance
Recruit: 4 alert, 2 vigilance
Major: 4 alert, 4 vigilance

As a side note, I notice that a Snare mission now requires 8 alert and 6 vigilance. It used to be 7 and 7.

You're buying into the cookie cutter, low aim, dumping ground theory of holo sharp use. That's not the only way to use holo-targetting in a sharpshooter spec. A medium to high-aim holo-sharpshooter that lets a shinobi do the scouting can set up a pod with Independant Tracking and Multitargeting one ...

My understanding of your post is that 2 rebels working on one job will avoid mini-retals, but how about full retals? Is there always a chance to get a full retal if you have 2 total rebels working? Is the threshold different for full retals? If there are at least 3 guys working in a haven (any comb...

It's a bug with the Grapple of the Spider Suit and Wraith Suit. Sometimes when you grapple onto an object, it fails to update the fog of war correctly and all your movements from then on fail to update fog of war. The only workaround I've found is to load an earlier save and perform the action again...

It's worth mentioning that you can still put a burn effect on an enemy standing in water. Its only removed if they move into a water tile. If they run out of the water in their panic, the burn is not removed

Aside from the flat infiltration increase, the main advantage you get is that enemies no longer get Reinforcements in the remaining missions. Obviously, that doesn't apply to Supply Raids, but it can be useful for cleaning up general ops.

gimrah wrote:I think troop columns always have a pod of 8 advent, even on very light.

There are actually 3 options at very light with no more than 4 man pods and only 2 options with the 8 man pod. You do have to infiltrate past the two 8 man pod options to get to the three 4 man pod options though!

OK, thanks a lot. The second one seems a lot more difficult, especially with the reinforcements every turn that also seem to drop in different locations, unlike the supply convoy defense. The second one doesn't have reinforcements. I recall someone had this happen before. Do you have any mods besid...

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There are many other classes that are much better in a Haven Advisor role. The weakest haven advisors are suboptimally specced Specialists, Shinobi and Grenadiers. A Needle Grenades grenadier is quite good though.

It's actually slightly complicated. Trojan makes 8 d100 rolls. It then compares those rolls to 50 + AttackerHackStat - DefenderHackDefense. For every roll under that number, it does a point of damage. As long as you beat the targets hacking defense by at least 50, you'll do the full 8 damage. Otherw...

OK. That one does currently exist. It's definitely wierd though.

All the other D2s have 9 enemies. All the other D3s have 10 enemies. None of the other schedules overlap in numbers like that and none of the others have a solo drone at all.

I can only assume its in there as a nasty surprise.

In 1.3, a region is safe from retaliations if no more than 2 rebels are working at a time. So even in super high strength and vigilance regions (7+ advent strength qualifies), you can put 2 rebels to Recruit or Supply safely. A region crushed down to 0 rebels is a useless region. What do faceless d...

Franzy wrote:Correction: S'n'G *can* have solo drones.

None of the schedules for smash'n'grab have any single entity pods. You can get pods with a drone in them, but not a drone by itself.

If you actually got a smash'n'grab with a solo drone in it in 1.4, then it has to be a bug.

In 1.3, you can't just do Intel all the time in every non-liberated region and expect to do well. The number of missions that can appear at once in a single region has increased significantly in 1.3, so you don't have to be searching for missions in every region. In 1.3, a region is safe from retali...

It's relevant in 1.3 on Legendary difficulty. Even if you 200% infiltrate, you have a 3 turn evac cooldown. With Air Controller it's a 1 turn cooldown on the initial use (not sure if moving the evac is still 2 or is reduced to 1). At lower difficulties, you can reduce your evac timer to 1 with signi...

On the HQ Base Assault, you'll always have 2 pairs of drones (1 Hunter Drone, 1 Normal in each), 1 command pod of 8, 1 advent pod of 8 and then the rest. The rest of the numbers are made up by smaller pods which range in size from 2 to 7 (depending on the mission schedule). You get similar effects o...

Rockets have the following against them: 1): there is that scatter roll 2): there is a damage roll 3): there is the fact damage decreases as you go away from the center have both 1 and 2 make no sense. If you have scatter, rockets should always do max damage in the center. As really the damage roll...

Indeed. It's a pity its not actually 50%, but 33% becomes very practical if you go for a high level skill early. Ideally you could just fix the tooltip on the second psi-chamber and it would be perfect.