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No - once you're on the mission your mobility is set, whether you use your items or not.

Zombies in a Barrel Get 15 Headshots against Lost in a single turn I'm more interested in the sheer number of enemies, personally - not only is it quite rare in vanilla XCOM 2 for 15+ enemies to be active at once, period, but to not just kill 15 of them, but to kill 15 of them in a specific way in ...

In that case, 1) it's very counterintuitive to be presented 2 options in a Full Override, where the success probabilities are very different, and the outcome (controlling the non-Mec robot target for the full mission only) is exactly the same. I believe that the hard option, in addition to capturin...

1) The flamethrower only has a chance to light a target on fire, not a guarantee. You can improve the odds by making sure that the tile the target is standing on is highlighted in the targeting preview, because if it sets the target's tile on fire (which is also just a chance) then the target will c...

Still I lost two high potential soldiers, that I could have easily avoided had I spent 25 intel which were available. At 92% I could have understood +2-3 force level, but going from force level 3-4 to force level 9-10 for missing 8% of infiltration seems a tiny bit over the top. Like I said in my r...

There are actually a couple different 'Supply Convoy' activities in the game, used for different purposes. Note how the mission objective is 'Ambush an ADVENT Construction Unit' - that means that that convoy is constructing an ADVENT Research Facility (the ones that generate blocks of AVATAR progres...

Neither Bring 'Em On or Executioner are Dark Events, actually - some units just have certain perks due to the type of unit they are. ADVENT Shock Troopers, it appears, have those ones. EDIT: In fact, Aggression is also an automatic perk for Shock Troopers - the only perk they are eligible to gain fr...

It's possible the ufopaedia has been updated since last I checked it, but if it hasn't, it isn't telling the full story regarding Will - all soldiers, in addition to the small amount of Will granted by their class, gain 4-12 points of Will at every level.

Just completed my first successful campaign, 7 Feb end date on Veteran (1.2 -> 1.4). I had 23 active dark events by the end. Is it normal to have this many? I was trying to prioritise countering them (pulling teams off other missions where necessary to make sure I was attempting every Dark Event mi...

It would still be very useful info. Like if I knew there was a chrysallid I'd play differently. Or if there was a MEC, and I hadn't seen one yet 3/4th of the way in, that there is one more pod with a MEC, etc. I agree. I perhaps should have been more clear that I was mainly responding to "but ...

Your right that the Shadow Chamber doesn't work right, but it's not true that you can't predict what will show up. You can actually see precisely what will show up in the Launch.log file when you click on the mission in the geoscape. The game does an update to the MissionSchedule and picks a new on...

My understanding of the mechanic (without having personally dug into the code, mind) is that reinforcements drop at the average position of the XCOM squad on the turn that they are called, +/- a random amount of tiles. The exact mechanic may vary per mission, though, as I've definitely noticed retal...

I've seen this kind of system before in other games and I have never liked it. It becomes a guessing game where you have to have the "correct" ammunition type to maintain parity. You're given little information to guess what the correct answers are going to be, and there's no way of chang...

So the katana mod too? http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=698579656&searchtext=katana Hmm I don't think this mod does what I'm looking for, but I'll give it a try thx! It does exactly what you want - the Primary Melee Weapons mod is just a combination of these individual mods...

No skill requires a specific type of weapon. This is not correct. You are right that many skills will adapt the description to the currently equipped weapon, but there are some skills (for instance, Slug Shot) that only work with the specified weapon, not with any others. EDIT: See also the detaile...

50-150 supplies can typically be drummed up if you need to contact a region [...] My next radio tower costs 300 supplies and I'm into FL 13-14. Yeah, but what I meant is that depending on your difficulty the cost of radio tower increases by 50-150 for each other tower - that's what you're losing, n...

[explanation of terms] Okay, I see what you're saying now, and I can kind of agree - I'm not really sure how much of a realistic concern that is, though? Like, for one thing, I don't think the intention is really to unlock the network tower and then just stop , even though that is of course a valid...

It's 'intentional' in the sense that they are aware of it and didn't feel the need to change it - the game just counts the number of radio towers you have and bases the price on that, since in vanilla there was no need to distinguish between radio towers you have and radio towers you've built . As t...

The enemies that appear on a mission are not based directly on infiltration level, they are based on 'Alert Level', which is equal to ADVENT Strength (for most missions the strength of the region they occur in, but in the case of a Supply Raid in particular, either the region they occur in or the re...

I believe post-liberation missions are also supposed to be downgraded to ADVENT Strength 1, though I don't know how that interacts with Supply Raids, which normally will use the strength of the source region, if it is higher than the destination.

Do you have rebels in your havens working on the 'Recruit' job? At first, they will mostly find more rebels (2/3 Chance to recruit a new rebel, 1/3 chance to find an XCOM recruit), but once a haven is 'full' (13+ Rebels) that changes to roughly 80:20 in favour of XCOM recruits. Stationing a soldier ...

Sort of - the way missions work is that they are generated using 'schedules' that define which exact types of pods are on a map at each ADVENT Strength level. For most common missions, these schedules follow some general rules as to how many enemies there are at each level, but big missions like HQ ...

The command pod (as well as all other details of a mission) is not based on infiltration directly, it's based on the Alert Level. Alert is equal to ADVENT Strength in the mission region (in the case a a Supply Raid the higher of the source region and destination region) plus sometimes a per-mission ...

I want to modify something I said earlier. It looks like aliens do get range bonuses, but only against flanked targets, which is different from how XCOM aim rules work. Perfect Information correctly displays this bonus when it is relevant. That's... utterly bizarre if true. I have absolutely no ide...

Isn't it a bit too OP now? Also, does this make the gunner's skill 'rupture' useless? Lategame enemy HP was increased somewhat to account for the increased damage (and to make getting plasma weapons more appealing, since many people just got coil and then never upgraded beyond that), so probably no...