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Anyway, should the features of this mod or something similar be added to LW2? http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=865511007 "Peek from Concealment" is definitely a mod that I consider essential to enjoying LW2, so I certainly wouldn't object to seeing something like it m...

Another way to mitigate the randomness might be to allow you to spend intel for a guaranteed detection of the dark event counter mission. This means if there are particular DEs that you dislike you can spend resources to counter them, but the cost would be high enough that it probably isn't worth g...

Hmm... I'd sooner suggest making supply raids and troop columns into quick response missions (no infiltration) and balancing the rewards and enemy count suitably around that. If people already aren't infiltrating them, you might as well balance them around the fact and be done with it. Besides, real...

fowlJ wrote:

darkerevent wrote:it's on my short list of mechanics that I would change if I knew how.

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Thanks very much, I'll look into this!

To be fair, I'm already running a shinobi/specialist/grenadier trio as my typical squad for hacky/jailbreaky guerilla ops that have reasonable infiltration timers available. The grenadier just hugs the specialist's position and rapid deploys a flashbang if need be (and prevents part of the mission x...

Indeed, I've read this one being reported at various times, and I don't know whether it's WAD (in which case the tooltip needs to be edited) or if it's a bug. I would like to see something official about this too.

I also suspect this is WAD, although I consider it immersion breaking and wish that it didn't work that way. Mystically being prevented from throwing a flashbang because a guy is firing wildly at a location which is now 8 tiles away from me and on the other side of a full wall just feels dumb, and i...

Also creating a squad seems to be a guaranteed way of signing an officer's death warrant. This was my experience as well in my first "test run" campaign (which I only played into midsummer before restarting). It prompted me to switch my officer list to mostly consisting of Specialists, Sh...

Title says it all. I have my squad huddled in a Bastion ball around the front of an ADVENT truck-and-trailer, for cover. Enemy MEC fires micro missiles onto us (for no damage, thanks to Bastion), but the truck still gets set on fire. The following turn the truck explodes and the squad takes shred an...

I have a hard time seeing room in any combat team for that. The more firepower you bring, the faster enemies die, the less likely you're going to get shot, or have added patrols. Killing as quickly and efficiently as possible provides safety. How often does a holotarget scout provide more damage (v...

I prefer to make my shooters take DFA and my spotters take all of the holo targeting perks, fully specializing each of the characters into their respective roles. I don't find hybridizing between rifle shooting and holo targeting all that useful for how I prefer to play. All of my squad compositions...

If you're referring to the video where Xwynns RnG'd to attack some Archons, he actually made a mistake there. Shooting is still turn ending, RnG does nothing to change that. RnG is useful for hacking and punching VIPs because those actions aren't turn ending. Ahh, I see. That makes sense. I think I...

Doesn't this make it impossible to actually capture VIPs? In any case, I don't see this as that big of an issue when a Shinobi with Covert and Ghostwalker can reduce sight range so much that he can stand right next to a VIP and not break concealment. Kidnapping instead of killing VIPs are hard enou...

I think that the ability to carry off a dead enemy as a soldier evacs (like the mod, but without the harness) would be a great addition, it adds an incentive to engage in combat rather than pure stealth missions. Indeed, this feels so logical that I'm probably going to install the mod for my next p...

I think the problem with bringing it closer to its LW1 version is it starts stepping on Walk Fire's toes. Since they're perks from two different classes who have different designs, roles, and perk synergies, I don't think the two perks are readily comparable. Walk Fire has the advantage of normally...

I would feel more satisfied with the HoB nerf if it didn't primarily hurt early-game SAW (a.k.a. Cooldown) gunners who don't have access to Expanded Mags or Autoloaders yet. My SAW gunners in the midgame run both an Advanced Expanded Mag and an Advanced Autoloader and don't mind spending five ammo i...

On Veteran, I'm having characters get hit for 4 damage from September (normal) Muton plasma grenades while the "Incoming" officer buff is allegedly active on them. (It happened during the enemy phase immediately after I used it). Is this normal, or is the buff broken somehow? Supposedly &q...

The "Grenade" slot does not count as a Utility slot. It's an extra slot unique to the Grenadier and is only affected by perks that say they affect it (e.g. Heavy Ordnance and Protector).

Very early libs are also just plain easier because ADVENT doesn't yet have access to as many interesting aliens and upgrades yet. In both of my campaigns (just on Veteran so far), I did my first lib with ballistic weaponry (in May or so?). Getting it extremely fast is partly down to RNG on the stra...

Also, maybe it's just a bit of a peeve of mine but it's not really nice to ask for native implementation of other mods into LW2. It isn't vanilla, it's just another mod, and implementing those features would mean that PI would have to do maitenance on them and honestly waste time on them while ther...

I'm not exactly sure why Firaxis changed it, because I think most people probably assume it works the way, but in XCOM 2 it was changed to be independent of hitting the target - if you have a 10% crit chance it means that 10% of the time when you hit the 'shoot' button you will get a critical hit, ...

--Carbines and Battle Rifles with associated aim/damage/mobility tradeoffs like in LW1, as alternative weaponry for anyone who can use rifles. I adored Carbines in LW1, and I'm finding lots of times I'd love to be able to slap a Laser Carbine on my supports for a supply raid or base assault, but my ...

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! ...

By the way, you can counter COINResearch, I do frequently. It's simply a matter of setting everyone in a region that can possibly house the mission to Intel the second you find out it's ongoing. Although I am cheating somewhat in having the Easier Dark Events mod that makes it so that they can't sp...

If you see this again, take note of it and submit it as a bug report, because this should be impossible. Dodge is already accounted for in the to-hit summary (against a Viper with a 100% base shot chance it should have read 'Dodge -3' or so in the list of modifiers), so if that introduced a chance ...