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I'll jump in and add that if it weren't for this surprise, I probably wouldn't have revisisted XCOM-2. LW1 took me from something like 50-60 hours in X1:EU (I hadn't even played EW until LW1) to probably 700ish hours. I had a similar 40-50 hours in X2 with little desire to ever return, short of an e...

I have been wondering about something. It seems what really trivializes these 0% Supply Raid/Troop Columns missions is your ability to just camp in a corner of the map in high cover and wait for pods to arrive. What if you just can't do that? What if you can't take 20 turns scouting around the map ...

Does anyone happen to know if liberated regions can recruit faceless personnel? Or are you saved that particular hassle once you've liberated?

If you're interested in the science, just try some simple experiments. Set weapon damage to 0, but environmental damage to like super high. Run around with the invincibility cheat and keep shooting at enemies near objects and sees what happens. If the environment is blowing up with 0 weapon damage,...

I use a laser sight rather than scope for my overwatch rangers, to great effect.

Definitely going to respectfully disagree. I'd say the graze band benefits XCOM quite a bit more than the aliens. If playing even halfway properly, you should always be the one getting the first rounds of hits, often reducing enemy pod numbers drastically. I'm not sure where you're coming up with &q...

My only input is that in X1/LW1, there was throttling but you'd stop at 1pt away from the NEXT rank, so no, it wasn't wasted unless you were racking up some serious XP in one mission -- barring rookies of course, it was pretty easy to go from Rookie 0xp to Squaddie 99% XP in one mission. Assuming th...

3 shouldn't destroy anything if a grenade with 9 isn't enough in most cases so obviously this number isn't the entire explanation. Well, when's the last time you saw a plasma rifle kill the environment? I can't recall. I mean I have seen plasma weapons "melt" or "weaken" UFO wal...

Alien grenades do the same environmental damage as the regular frag grenades. You still need both sapper and combat engineer if you want to guaranteed rek high (most) high cover, so I wouldn't be inclined to take needler myself. I also don't tend to finish off enemies with grenades very often, and ...

On a similar note, do most environmental objects (ie. cover) have hidden HP that is depleted when the grenade goes off? That is to say, can a grenadier spam grenades at a cover object to eventually destroy it? My experience says "no", but I'm wondering what is the actual mechanic for deci...

People keep suggesting just upping the difficulty (for 0% infil supply raid type shenanigans) in the form of something like +force level, but this won't really solve the problem. People will find ways to win them regardless of "difficulty," and in many cases, it will just increase rewards ...

I had my first retaliation in a liberated zone last night - late Nov, vet level, squad of whoever wasn't out in infiltration - and there were three pods all activated in a few steps (one with three codex!), with reinforcements starting on third turn. Crazy hard fight. Fortunately I started on top o...

The more I see these issues discussed, the more I think: LW1's economy requiring lots of corpses, alloys, elerium etc. was, IMO, good. I like resource variance, and collecting things for my bank gives me those good feels. Unfortunately, due to the X2 theme change, all the evac'ing changed the dynami...

Separate question- what leads to resistance members ranking up? I've carefully given every one of 6 members a kill in a spy mission, and only one of them ranked up (...now I think about it I think one may have gotten two kills). Is it a set kill # to aim for, so I can try and rank up 3 members ever...

I know. I have been playing both kinds of retaliations dozens of times... just never at the same time!!! To clarify once more: There are 12 aliens waiting right next to the starting zone. You have no concealment, so you activate them all at once. At the same time , there are reinforcements coming i...

Is it at all possible for these types of missions to award extra corpses to make up for alien number reduction during infiltration (simulating stealthy dispatching of a few pods, I guess?) Basically making rewards for supply raids / troop columns even across the board. If that's possible, combine it...

Postmaster wrote:Is it fixed if you turn off action cam? Because I turned it off and I don't think I have this problem.

+1 for "action cam is terrible, disabled since release"

Jacke wrote:

PAULOEL7 wrote:Another on, much simpler: to be able to choose between free and regular reloads.

There's already a mod that provides this.

Free Reload Anytime

Oooooooh, is this confirmed LW2 compatible and it doesn't mess with anything? Because oh my god, do I want this choice. Seems absurd to not have it.

Both of my liberated regions are at 11 personnel, but I've opted for no more recruitment simply due to not wanting the chance of recruiting a faceless that will actually reduce my income from those regions (they're clean at the moment). Something to consider, if you know for sure your lib'd region i...

Jacke wrote:Any idea how to input Unicode characters into the console?

I'm trying to adjust soldier "Zuzanna Kozłowska" and finding no way to enter a "Latin Small Letter L With Stroke", the 4th character of her last name.

Rename her first via vanilla customization options?

*Takes notes* I just got WIPED on this mission. Apparently, if the region is strength 4, and the enemy force is "Light", this means they can have 4 heavy mechs, 2 regular ones, a muton and two sectoids AND a full pod of soldiers with an archon. x_X With a turret watching the safest possib...

Hello Long War 2 developers! Could you please add a number indicator after Basic Research, Engineering Research, and any other research that are repeatable. Like this: Basic Research 4 Engineering Research 2 Would make it easier to remember how many times, we have repeated the above research items....

#3 As was mentioned above squad management is not good enough. You have to remove soldiers from one squad first to add them to another squad. This has caused me to not use squad system at all. When I start a new campaign, I first deleted all squads and never create new ones again. Missions are a co...

#3 As was mentioned above squad management is not good enough. You have to remove soldiers from one squad first to add them to another squad. This has caused me to not use squad system at all. When I start a new campaign, I first deleted all squads and never create new ones again. Missions are a co...

I was going to create a new thread, but I'll just throw my report in here. v1.1, only cosmetic mods I had two Lost Tower PoI missions available at the same time, and after finally completing one of them and unlocking SPARKs, yet another PoI spawned as the ROV-R investigation that leads to the Lost T...