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Welp, turned out not to be a trap mission! Unfortunately, I missed an 87% shot to kill a MEC, who bombed my Technical for max damage, destroyed his cover, and allowed a 35% shot to finish him off. Apart from that, not a scratch on me

So, one of the things I like that Long War 2 brought into focus was the ability to evacuate your squad early. This was in XCOM 2, but you were really more expected to win every fight, even on Ironman, so it didn't come up much. However, missions with a designated evacuation point make this harder. I...

The only 'protect recruiters' missions I've gotten was like this too. Given that you have to get the recruiters to Evac, and then wait several turns before you yourself can evac... all while re-inforcements drop on your regularly... Yah, discovered recruiters can just go and die. I'll just have to w...

I don't really mind the Knife being underwhelming, as the Gunner is probably one of the best classes out of the box. Free Suppression and Area Suppression? The Cannon being arguably the best weapon type in the game? They have so many good things going for them, that a mediocre secondary is basically...

My game started in South Africa, and so did Xwynns. So I'm thinking it might be that way. Kind of makes sense, it's a fairly solid starting area.

I believe Dark Event missions have artificlally extended timers so that you have much more time to detect and intercept -- because the tactical ones are permanent. In that case, it's probably not a trap. That makes sense. Given that I have 12 rebels doing intel, with the help of a comms tower, make...

Woah that sounds great. The thing is, when I liberated my region, the forces got pushed out to a neighboring region so it started at like 11 already. Liberations don't kill all the ADVENT Strength in an area, just relocates them? Makes Liberation a little less rewarding then, I thought part of the ...

So, when can Trap missions occur, and what tips you off to them? I got a Dark Event Counter mission, baseline light activity, with 13 days. This is on a Strength 5 area (for which I've unlocked the Network Tower mission). It just seems a bit too good to be true. Now, I am running a lot of intel on t...

SPARKs are only dominating if they arrive early, as in, the first 2 or 3 months tops. After that, taking them on Moderate+ enemy activity missions is near suicide, as their armor/ablation melts rather quickly without smoke/Aid. They remain "good", but I wouldn't call it "dominating&q...

What can a SHIV do that a MEC/SPARK can not do better ? SHIVs have a very obvious role that soldiers and SPARKs do not. Disposability. In XCOM 1, they are upgraded as a whole, and do not gain experience. When they die, you lose solely the SHIV itself. This means you can do very dangerous things wit...

Totally not disputing the changes since they make sense - just making it actually documented and known that they work like this. While it is annoying that it's not documented, it's also true that those facilities using engineers isn't documented in Vanilla either. If you want to play knowing everyt...

I don't understand do you guys actually like Sparks that much? They don't seem that great to me (except you know, their main gun is strong as hell now.) Base 1 armor (3 armor by rank 3, if you pick the right perks), 5 ablative health, 30 innate defense, resistance to criticals, immunity to fire and...

1.1 has the SPARK mission appearing much later in the game. It's fitting, as the SPARK is actually very powerful (I had gotten my SPARK in 1.0 and then waited for 1.1 to come out, and it's dominating). Most likely, you haven't gotten to it yet. From what little I understand, you need to be 4 or 5 mo...

Electroshock is VERY good. There are lots of times when you're not sure if your Assault can safely push forward without activating another pod. And Disorient is a huge part of play in this game. Units with special abilities can completely ruin your day, but all it takes is a Disorient to stop them f...

Yah, a change that made sense (and made Scientists a little more noteworthy), but not something that might have immediately been suspected. I doubt too many people start building the Psi Lab before the AWC completes, so most people will probably see the scientist slot there and ask where else now ta...

You'll want to confirm with a developer, but it's possible that the mission will 're-activate' when you reach the point under which it spawns in 1.1. If that doesn't work (or a dev says it won't) you might be able to fix it with a console command or meddling with the .ini files.

1) The version of Long War you are playing. 1.1 2) The platform you are playing on. Windows 7, 64-bit 3) What other XCOM2 mods you are playing with. A small number of UI only mods. Only gameplay affecting mod is Free Reloads Anytime. 4) The circumstances of the bug or precise steps to produce it. Wa...

I vaguely recall hearing that the Force Level goes up by 1 every 2 weeks. So you'll have to be 6 months into the game before The Nest shows up.

Did you first discover it on 1.0? It's not supposed to appear until later in 1.1, so it's possible that if you discovered it in 1.0, and you waited until after 1.1 came out, it would bug out in some way.

I haven't even encountered The Nest mission yet. So either they show up without the mission much earlier, or you've got a bug. I know that v1.1 changed when the DLCs start, however. Also, good note about the flamethrower. Rulers are particularly weak to fire (thanks to them burning every action), bu...

I'm starting to think ahead to this situation, and I've got a random question: Does the defense matrix take an engineer to staff? Don't know about Long War, but in Vanilla, you could staff it to increase the turrets accuracy (and maybe damage). Given how direly everybody is talking about this missi...

Can't find this anywhere. Does Holotargetting break Concealment? Was thinking about picking up Phantom for my Sharpshooter, but I'm not sure it's the best choice unless I can holo-target from concealment.

While we're at it, does anyone have a list of actions that don't break concealment?

So, there doesn't appear to be a general thread for telling stories. If I'm wrong about this, feel free to move this post into that thread, mods. This is a thread for sharing the wacky adventures you've had. Incredible strings of luck (good or otherwise), tales of come from behind victories or utter...

So, any class (except SPARK) can potentially learn Pistol mastery. And while Sharpshooters are still a prime choice for them, I figured I'd think about what other classes merit so much AWC time. Classes I deem as 'dedicated' Gunslingers can build specifically for Pistol use, if you're willing to spe...

Could you expand on that a little please? WHat's considered a 'rush'? Why is it bad? I've been working towards liberation of my first region and just infiltrated a squad with best 10 troops and all the best eq I have last night. 20d+ infil time so a few light missions with the lower ranks to play t...