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I prefer DFA sharps for any non-timed mission for sure, under a dedicated Holo sharp officer. In addition to the height bonus, I also like what DFA does to the sharpshooter's aim when shooting at very long ranges. I generally don't like doing the RT hybrid thing because I never feel comfortable with...

Where serial is broken is that autoloaders can be used multiple times per turn, and coupled with extended mags you can get an extremely large number of kills in a single turn if you stage a quality activation on multiple pods at once. To me the simple solution seems to be to put a cooldown on autol...

Nerf the area below the Avenger. It is way too strong.

Strangely enough this is the first April Fools post I've encountered in my casual Internet browsing today.

+1 to style for arguing that the Hyper-reactive Pupils PCS is good. xD

But it doesn't really do that at all. By the time you have the powerful CD perks, your not using Hail and Demo as much, and you have bigger mags by then so the 5 ammo cost doesn't matter. The time when your using Hail and Demo the most is when you have no better options and you dont have the big ma...

I have always gotten the impression that Demolition was only so popular in the first place because Grenadiers are unreasonably bad at destroying cover (requiring a LCPL + MSGT perk combo before they can do it reliably, thus necessitating that other characters pick up the slack through whatever avail...

To be honest, Needle Grenadiers are the only damaging grenadiers I ever make. They provide boringly reliable, incredibly strong AoE damage in a game with few boss enemies and tons of swarms of normal enemies, and they don't even destroy loot in the process. I hear people talk about how nice Sapper+C...

Word on the grapevine is that 1- to 3-man stealth runs will be severely worse in 1.3, so I recommend training up some more assaults and grenadiers while the training is good. That said, since I'm not a tester, I don't have any special insight into what the new meta is going to look like. I just hope...

My partner and I decided to tweak the ini file to make the perks visible, because we found that the lack of visibility pigeonholed us into wasting no AWC time at all on characters who rolled bad initial perk options, and left us generally disfavoring such characters in general. We were instead only ...

Aliens are dumb about running suppression in this game. The way the AI handles it is definitely not the same as it was in LW1 (where they would usually try to shoot the suppressing character). I have never noticed the behavior described, despite using stealth spotters quite commonly, but I'll look i...

I'm pretty fine with "Liberate two or three regions, then build up your economy, make more contacts, and win the game" being the general flow of the campaign. As cool as the liberation mission chains are, any that get completed beyond the first are essentially sidequests, and I like that i...

Core: 1 holo sharpie (officer, stays phantomed and avoids damage at any reasonable cost) 1 DFA sharpie (relentless shooting) 1 overwatch ranger (defensive lineman for the DFA sharpshooter) 1 smoker support grenadier (delivers defense and frame rate reduction whenever and wherever needed) Optionals f...

They really ought to have at least one organic unit in their roster that's completely immune to flashbangs (possibly go all the way and outright give them Fortress) and at least mildly threatening as a shooter, but not loaded with crowd control abilities or AoE threats. That's definitely something t...

Supply raids are another one of those missions and i suspect Recruitment raids would probably play smoother with more OW specced soldiers but i managed to avoid them past the early game so i can't really tell. Makes quite a bunch of retaliation missions where they can be very useful. To be honest, ...

do you want overwatch to be good? one of the biggest things overwatch does is massively outperform other available actions in situations where the enemy is not yet engaged with you but going to patrol into you (or drop RNFs on top of you). that creates a bimodal distribution of engagement difficult...

I would happily see Soul Steal removed in favor of almost any other psi skill design (such as LW1-style cover destruction via telekinesis). No-way-no-how am I going to position my psi op so he's getting shot with the intent to tank stuff and regain health afterward -- not when training times are alr...

I'd have to go inspect the AI decision log to figure out why this is happening so frequently, but it could be as you say prioritizing a killshot or it could just be the fact that the bound soldier is now out of cover giving them a big bonus to hit that soldier vs any others. If all the other potent...

LordYanaek wrote:Quick and Dirty attempt at merging the existing icon and the old (now Dense Smoke) icon SmokeGrenadeMix.png

I really like that merge. If the notion isn't picked up and used officially, perhaps someone can make a modmod that tweaks that.

(Speaking from the PoV of a Veteran difficulty player who is just about to finish out a 1.2 campaign.) My experience has been that Rift + Schism can be pretty awesome with the Insanity procs on clusters of enemy organics. For what amounts to a reusable big grenade that blows their minds , I don't th...

As a side question, can anyone tell me whether the current implementation stacks at all if there are multiple characters with the perk on the team?

Fwiw, I would support making the icons more distinctive. I have trouble telling at a glance too. I've never thrown smoke onto the aliens, but I have moved a character into position for a flashbang throw thinking that it was a bang, only to find out in the preview that it was a smoke. In my case the ...

wether we like them or not, tactical DEs are part of the balance of the game. That balance might not be perfect right now but players shouldn't be able to cancel every DEs, just a couple ones they really hate (which might vary from player to player as we have different play-styles). I really hope t...

On 10-man sweep objectives (e.g. base assaults), I like having an overwatch/medic hybrid specialist (CUP, Revival, FM, EV, Savior or Sentinel) around with a rifle, to hang out in the midline near my ranger(s) and gunner(s), ready to heal them if any damage gets through. I particularly find them to b...

I tend to disagree with this. At Sgt Bluescreen Bombs will make sure those annoying drones won't stun your guys which almost always means a lost soldier in fast stealth missions. At TSgt you get Dense Smoke which is a very strong survivability boost. In one of my latest stealth missions in my (now ...

Does any viable control option exist outside of Stings? It's becoming rather apparent that past the early game in LW2, everything must be killed or controlled every turn of combat. Area suppression is small and getting nerfed. OW defense and smokes does jack against sneks, rocketeers or MECs. Other...