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I'm not saying you're wrong, but i don't think considering this a "good result" is universally true either. It's not a bad result (he could have lost all rebels and some soldiers) but that's definitely not the sort of result that would make me want to "exploit retaliations for experi...

I recorded a fairly lengthy explanation of my 12 MSGTs in my last L/I win yesterday: https://youtu.be/sj-LlDp9C9c

Talked a decent amount about why they have the perks they have, what role they fill, and how they performed.

Making stealth deep and compelling seems like you'd be building an entire side game within Xcom. I mean if Pavonis can pull it off, that'd be amazing, but I'm pretty skeptical that it's feasible. FYI, check out Invisible INC for an amazing tactical stealth game. eh, more like you'd be incorporating...

LordYanaek wrote:If i remove those Extract VIP it's 10 failures out of 51 missions for approximately 80% success.

But don't forget we are talking about a top player.

don't forget that that top player is streaming and chatting with viewers, playing 6+ hours nonstop, and sometimes drunk, either .

PS: Legend, May11, laser + predator, AWC+GTS, lab on power coil will be built in 7 days, 4 sci. + 3 eng., 2 pips in Avatar timer, 23% slowed timer, Status just dropped from severe to high, 46 legions on the map, Black Site is 3 regions away. just make sure that you're expanding fast enough to keep ...

Here's xwynns doing an Intel Raid Protect the Datatap last week in his LW2 Legendary campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Z2rOPeEt8&t=12m30s I'm still watching it. Xwynns had hoped to come in quickly, beat it, and deploy the same troops back on infiltrating a mission he'd pulled them off...

Difficulty Impossible Month: May (15) Advent Str: 5 Map Difficulty: Light No gameplay Mods besides LW2 I ended up doing to the mission 3 or 4 times, with different load outs + spawns and eventually beat it. I saved 1 civi, lost a Soldier, and got more than 50% of my A team wounded. I probably could...

On Rookies/Squaddies being effectively free, if you're finding that you're able to translate an effectively free resource into more valuable things maybe the simplest solution is just to make that resource not free anymore? It doesn't really make any sense for XCOM to be adding Rookies at a point in...

good call, added those to the top of the spreadsheet.

Hey all :) Just wanted to leave this here as a resource. Hope it can help people out who want to look up what sorts of approaches I take to different missions, where I've been aiming to be at different stages of the game, etc. This campaign took some heavy losses around April and May, but had a very...

Alketi wrote:I see that Guardian is being removed from the Sharpshooter list in the next patch. Is this because it's broken?

Asking because one of my Sharpshooter's has it as his first Defensive skill available.

It doesn't play nice with Long Watch, if you don't take Long Watch it works fine though.

Specialists with good hack are very good in combat missions because hacked drones are almost identical to vanilla on-release mimic beacons. That's just too situational, often there is no drone. Often you fail the hack. For every time that a specialist hack saves the day, another class would've save...

Specialists with good hack are very good in combat missions because hacked drones are almost identical to vanilla on-release mimic beacons.

Can you please elaborate on why intel retals are easy/good for you? I've been watching xwynns legendary ironman play through, and the 4 or so mini-retals on intel he's got have been pretty much disasters, resulting in multiple rebel/adviser deaths and wounds to his main team, even though he does ex...

I'm saying this half-serious : are we going to see a nerf to hunker down? Those hunker down tanks OP ; p That's the issue when you start to nerf something in the name of balance, something else will invariably end up being OP compared to the other options and you'll have to also nerf it until every...

You can't really like, just magically give all your soldiers Tac Vests and Incendiary Grenades. I mean, if you're rich, sure, but in my current campaign where I'm rich enough to win I have I think two Tac Vests, two (three?) Warden Armors, and one Incendiary Grenade, and it's September already. War...

Formidable: I think you're undervaluing this somewhat in general, especially when you're prioritizing an extra grenade on a grenadier over it. I don't think Heavy Ordinance is a great perk, but Formidable is weak too. Do you put 3 or 4 grenades on your grenadiers? If yes, then you're better off tak...

Hi all! I don't feel like many players are really engaging with Strength and Vigilance yet. A lot of people playing a high difficulties are just bypassing the mechanic by running 0% missions to break the strategic layer, and I get the impression that a lot of people at lower difficulties are having ...

stefan3iii wrote:An interesting nerf to sting grenades would be to give them fall-off stun % chance, so enemies at the center have a 50% chance to stun, and the enemies at the edge would be something like 25%.

I think more like 20% in center and 10% at edges xD

Oh yeah, one thing I've been realizing recently is how good exo suits are. If you watch people like xwynns or joinrbs you just get sucked into "build predator/warden" all the time but exos are a little cray cray, allowing you to outright win situations you otherwise wouldn't be able to. I...

Thoughts: Failsafe: I've never understood why people like this perk so much. The penalties for failing hacks are negligible, and generally you don't bother taking a hack action if you have a high chance of failing it anyway. Hi, I'm a fan. Just jumping in to mention why I like Failsafe so much. I a...

I've been throwing tons of soldiers into the AWC for pistols in my current campaign and they all seem extremely strong. example: https://clips.twitch.tv/NastyGiftedLlamaANELE I think you guys are overthinking it a bit in general; these are perks which will consistently give you a free 5-10 damage on...

currently perks are already "auto-balanced" by random soldier stats, random soldier awcs, and different conditions as the campaign progresses. I pick a hugely more varied set of perks for each roster in my campaigns than I ever did in LW1.

I think that if you're finding 4-6 soldier missions to be difficult later in the game it's more a strategic failure than a tactical balancing issue. With accurate navigation of the strategic layer it's possible to generate a lot of light through moderate troop columns, extremely light through light ...

failsafe is very very bad. i have no idea why people like that perk. the relevant consequence of failing a hack in any situation where you care about the hack is always that you didn't get the hack success reward, not that you have to suffer the hack failure punishment. the times i can remember me h...