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I've seen suicide rookies used more often for Kill VIP missions than Hack Workstation missions. It's totally worth it if all your real squads are out on assignment and the Kill VIP mission is for the Lib chain. Then you get Lib chain progress, one of the rewards, and it only cost some supply.

Offline mode until you're done with your current campaign?

Dammit hairlessOrphan, you have me really worried now about my current Veteran campaign where I'm about to liberate my third region, and they are all adjacent.

I think a big part of the strategic layer's problems comes from lack of good documentation, so we don't have the tools we need to figure out how to approach it. This guide by joinrbs is probably the best there is, and I highly recommend it: http://www.pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=16...

I meant simple in terms of an elegant solution balance-wise. It also sounds pretty easy to implement compared to everything else in the mod, and I see no reason to believe otherwise until a dev says so.

There is a simple solution for yellow alert that I can't seem to get traction for. The shots should be treated like overwatch shots. Aim malus and no crit chance. Easy peasy, problem solved.

You're reasoning with static targets in mind but even a flanked soldier right next to an ADVENT trooper is not static. He's running away or trying to dodge or doing any action that can't be displayed in a turn based representation. However, someone immobilized with his entire head visible is extrem...

You're reasoning with static targets in mind but even a flanked soldier right next to an ADVENT trooper is not static. He's running away or trying to dodge or doing any action that can't be displayed in a turn based representation. However, someone immobilized with his entire head visible is extrem...

If they wanted to stop Hail of Bullets and Demolition from being such total auto-picks, they should have buffed their competitors instead of nerfing a good fun perk that people like.

A bound soldier is not totally enveloped, there are still parts of him exposed so i really don't understand the argument that you have to shoot through the viper Are you kidding with this? Advent has a 60-80% chance to hit nearby flanked units standing in the open. They should get huge hit penaltie...

That gap is for Psi strength when (if?) you eventually get Psi.

I agree it would be nice to have Defense on there. Perhaps an icon for Dodge/Defense and put both numbers in the same spot separated by a dash?

I agree this Dark Event is overtuned. It is way too punishing compared to the other possibilities and basically makes your campaign live or die on rng. It becomes extremely difficult to do any times missions non-stealth which means no xp for your troops or lots of wounds.

In your example - 85% to hit, 25% dodge, 35% crit - you actually have a 67% chance to do at least 5-7 damage , which is the number we care about. You need to consider cases where a regular hit (75%) fails both the crit and dodge rolls, succeeds at both the crit and dodge rolls, or succeeds at crit b...

But the aliens aren't on overwatch. It's their turn. They're just doing exactly what you're doing, moving troops from out of visual range into the fight. The equivalent would be to lock out any member of the player's squad who wasn't visible to the aliens on contact because it's "not fair"...

In OG XCOM once you started making noise any enemy on the map could just walk up and shoot you at any time. Huh? In OG XCOM all enemies would start active, and they would often decimate your squads. But that didn't matter because it was acceptable and expected to lose entire squads routinely. You c...

Some are definitely more obnoxious than others. The one for earlier/more frequent reinforcements is particularly shitty.

I'm still in late spring/early summer I think. I do have the save game if you want it. How do I get it to you?

1) Version 1.1 2) Windows 8.1 3) Perfect Information, Free Camera Rotation, CapnBubs Accessories, Evac All, Free the hood 4) I queued up a Lib 3 - destroy the device - in a strength 5 region. The baseline activity was Light but I had enough time to infiltrate to 129%. I finished infiltrating and the...

Reloaded a save from before the mission and it is now showing Light, but still no effect from boosting.

It's fine if the Lib missions are harder, but I swear the mission was Light when I first deployed to it (I write all this stuff down on a spreadsheet to track missions). This mission showed baseline Light when it first appeared, and I was able to infiltrate to 129% (225% with boost). Regional streng...

So I queued up a Lib 3 - destroy the device - in a strength 5 region. The baseline activity was Light but I had enough time to infiltrate to 125%. Imagine my surprise when I finished infiltrating and the activity was Light-Moderate! The region strength was still 5 by the way. "Oh well," I ...

If the mission works the way I think it does, then it seems quite fair. - No reinforcements until you break concealment - Hacking the objective cuts off reinforcements - Kill all remaining aliens after hacking the objective to win It means you can take your time and sneak most of the way to the cont...

There are a few tricks to the Tower mission: - Reinforcements will only start dropping once you exit concealment. - Once you hack the console, all pods will be stunned for 2 turns. You can use this time to clean up the area. - If there is even a single alien alive, reinforcements will continue spaw...

Didn't you guys know - Bradford is the only non-doctor in the entire XCOM universe. Dr. Big Sky and Dr. Firebrand tried to educate him but he didn't understand that you can't find a diploma at the bottom of a glass. What I'd love is a separate category in the labs for Rending. It should still take t...

Ugh, what is with people playing on legend and then complaining that the game is too hard! The excuse that it's just "bad design" is pretty transparent too... As Zyrrashijn said, Dark Events are the new way that the aliens get upgraded perks. We had Navigators and Pod Leaders in Long War 1...