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Valaska wrote:
They are almost never in enemy materials missions, and it seems that when they are, they are the elite stunlancer... And I think that they drop just normal trooper corpses.

Is that a bug? Seems like a really weird design choice if it's not.

I did not know the exo suit added more flame attacks. This is very cool news.

So if ranger can't get perk X then no one can?

That could be, but based on supplies and intel I'm definitely not getting the increase that a tower should be giving.

Though I didn't check post 1.1, I should retest this tonight after work.

I've gotten America, Asia and Europe. Never yet Oceania either.

Unless there is a correction mechanism, such that early failure or success in preventing a dark event produces an opposite and immediate effect, there will be permanent and continual effect on game balance. Getting lucky or unlucky will produce campaigns that are either too easy to too hard. If you...

One thing that confused me at first is that your starting region already has a tower but it doesn't provide any of the bonuses. So you can't seem to build a tower in your starting region AND you need to build one in another region to get your starting continent bonus. Maybe I'm bugged, but it's been...

Something that saved me on this mission was the officer command that delays reinforcements. I could only do it once, but that was enough in my case.

I've tested both slugshot and electroshock, and I prefer electro very strongly. It is guaranteed. Hit it and that enemy is either stunned for two or disoriented for two. There is no failure option. It is reliable and that is way more valuable to me than maybe hitting maybe not at farther range. Espe...

You can call evac but it is just abandoning the mission. Better than everyone dead if it goes bad.

I suck and had multiple squad wipes on them. So I don't get greedy at all. I go max infiltrate and sometimes buy more.

From the 1.1 changelist thread: "- Lost Towers POI won't appear to FL 8; Alien Nest won't appear until FL 12" I don't know what FL stands for but it sounds like they moved the Nest later. I also don't know what FL refers to but I'm guessing "find lead"? Maybe you need to do a mi...

There is another use specific to snipers: death from above. When you kill shooting doesn't end turn. So kill and you can steady every turn. Just not steady then kill in the same turn. This also works with light em up and a few other attacks. Or, when you cannot park your sniper but need to travel wi...

One counterpoint is that skulljacks give a hacking bonus and many objectives give cool hacking rewards. Like permanent hack bonuses more loot and intel. The skulljack can pay for itself with those rewards if you use it often.

That is a really good idea. I'm going to be restarting my campaign soon and will keep that strategy in mind.

I look at pistols from a totally different direction from you. For me, the technical is my top pistolier because they have barely any charges on the gauntlet. Basically they get a couple rockets, and maybe have a chance to use the flame thrower once in a mission. Otherwise none of their perks or gea...

In the options there is a choice to show locked perks. Turn that on and you can see them all

Officers also get the ability to add two turns to a mission for 10 intel. Some can do it more than once.

Give the technical an smg . Not for the move, but reduced enemy detection. It lets you get close enough for a good BBQ. Yeah, I do. But on the missions where I care about it the most (Supply Raids and other big ones) are the ones where the pods are biggest and the infil time is lowest (so the enemy...

I also forgot a decent strategy is to have a sniper for this kind of mission since he can squad sight the array with someone spotting for him. This is particularly nice for psi emitters in avenger defense or the invasion missions. The arrays take are robotic and take the bonus damage from blue scre...

Do you play on easy? Its disabled on easy. 2) Pod runs into player during aliens' turn. Pod breaks formation, dives for cover. That's one move, and since it's the aliens' turn, they shoot with their second move. Just like normal. You are counting this different from Goumindong. He counts it like th...

Because of The reduced chance to set tiles adjacent to you on fire? I was thinking the larger area of effect might make up for it. But I have to admit losing adjacent burn tiles has me wondering.

Potential lead is still confusing. I think a bit of precision might help. "Unlock raid mission" or something that explicitly states that what you get is a second mission not a loot item.

>.> <.< >.> I probably should make those sorts of decisions based on capabilities and synergy. instead of who looks coolest or got the best voice pack. For the record, my Kerrigan is ALWAYS an officer. We already have one alien invasion happening, don't need zerglings all over the place too. :lol:

Knowing that any sentence starting with "technically " just marks the speaker as a pedant... technically sectoids ethereals, and gatekeepers are very psychic.