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by mattprice516
Fri Jan 27, 2017 10:58 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Aim affects rocket scatter? There is no info about this in the game
Replies: 8
Views: 12497

Re: Aim affects rocket scatter? There is no info about this in the game

The above is correct to the best of my knowledge, with the caveat that rockets also have range penalties to aim for the purposes of that scatter roll. The value displayed is the max possible scatter. Displaying both the max and the expected value would ofc be better, but getting new UI stuff to work...
by mattprice516
Fri Jan 27, 2017 10:56 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: What is the "to-hit" crit penalty?
Replies: 10
Views: 15317

Re: What is the "to-hit" crit penalty?

Who in their right mind says 'it makes three rolls' and then puts 'actually it doesn't' in tiny fine print at the bottom. :| Because I'm trying to explain the mechanics to a general audience and conditional probability isn't prior knowledge I want to require for someone to understand the mechanics....
by mattprice516
Fri Jan 27, 2017 4:34 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Legendary/Impossible Balance
Replies: 9
Views: 13462

Re: Legendary/Impossible Balance

Trihero is correct. The impact from putting more rebels on Intel early on is about as far from "overwhelmingly minor" as it could possibly be. Rebels on the Intel job is the ONLY way you can detect missions - that and the Avenger scanning. Good play in the strategic layer is distributing y...
by mattprice516
Thu Jan 26, 2017 9:29 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Legendary/Impossible Balance
Replies: 9
Views: 13462

Re: Legendary/Impossible Balance

Legend in LW2 is really meant for people who have a supreme grasp of the mechanics. Can't really stress that enough. You mentioned the first few missions getting "thrown" at you with low infiltration time. That's not actually a scripted thing, it's under the player's control and is direct...
by mattprice516
Thu Jan 26, 2017 5:03 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Haven Retaliation Questions
Replies: 17
Views: 25437

Re: Haven Retaliation Questions

Hmm, if all the aliens were on the map from the start I believe the objective would be to sweep - that said, you shouldn't lose all of your rebels if you evacced them. Do you have a save from before the mission ended? And are you using any mods which add or change mission types or objectives?
by mattprice516
Thu Jan 26, 2017 12:35 pm
Forum: Long War 201
Topic: "Find A Lead" Mission Explanation
Replies: 18
Views: 69192

Re: "Find A Lead" Mission Explaination

First enough Intel must be created to fill the "Initial" pool, before which there is no chance to find the mission. Once the "Initial" pool is filled, future Intel generation is added to the "100%" pool. Every six hours, undetected missions with Intel in their "10...
by mattprice516
Thu Jan 26, 2017 1:03 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Incendiary grenade has a radius of 1 tile. :(
Replies: 30
Views: 40121

Re: Incendiary grenade has a radius of 1 tile. :(

It's a very good "delete this enemy now" button. Certainly has its downsides though.
by mattprice516
Thu Jan 26, 2017 1:01 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How to switch to infinite plasma grenades?
Replies: 8
Views: 14433

Re: How to switch to infinite plasma grenades?

All other special grenades (aka ones you don't start with) are also non-infinite, just FYI.
by mattprice516
Thu Jan 26, 2017 12:53 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: alternative primary for Sharshooter
Replies: 43
Views: 45042

Re: alternative primary for Sharshooter

For those who hate the Not Created Equally stats, there's always the option to turn it off...
by mattprice516
Thu Jan 26, 2017 12:52 am
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Tower missions: any tips?
Replies: 16
Views: 19358

Re: Tower missions: any tips?

Those missions are indeed quite hard.

Protip: hacking the objective stuns every enemy on the map for 2 full turns.
by mattprice516
Thu Jan 26, 2017 12:48 am
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: How good is "Basic Research" upgrade?
Replies: 47
Views: 67756

Re: How good is "Basic Research" upgrade?

IIRC it's essentially just an option to prevent a campaign from completely being screwed over by losing an early Scientist rescue or something - a suboptimal tradeoff of resources basically (like selling stuff in Catan).
by mattprice516
Thu Jan 26, 2017 12:46 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Haven Retaliation Questions
Replies: 17
Views: 25437

Re: Haven Retaliation Questions

That's odd. Did you evac all of the rebels as well? This was one of the retals where reinforcements drop constantly, right?
by mattprice516
Thu Jan 26, 2017 12:45 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Why Shinobi?
Replies: 12
Views: 17118

Re: Why Shinobi?

I just copy and pasted the class data ini into the Rogue class mod and changed the starting loadout. Aside from the odd loading screen, I never have to be bothered with that weeaboo bullshit ever again. Sounds like a quite odd and bug-prone way to do it when you could just edit a few lines in a loc...
by mattprice516
Thu Jan 26, 2017 12:43 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Incendiary grenade has a radius of 1 tile. :(
Replies: 30
Views: 40121

Re: Incendiary grenade has a radius of 1 tile. :(

Yup. It does more direct damage than any other grenade type and sets the enemy on fire, dealing further damage and preventing any actions other than basic melee attacks.

S'pretty good.
by mattprice516
Wed Jan 25, 2017 11:01 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Haven Retaliation Questions
Replies: 17
Views: 25437

Re: Haven Retaliation Questions

Ah, those are similar but not quite full retals. The first is what we call a "recruit miniretal" (triggered by ADVENT discovering and attacking your recruiting efforts) and the second is an "invasion" where ADVENT attempts to take back a Liberated region.
by mattprice516
Wed Jan 25, 2017 11:00 pm
Forum: Long War 201
Topic: "Find A Lead" Mission Explanation
Replies: 18
Views: 69192

Re: "Find A Lead" Mission Explaination

Once you complete the FAL that is Lib 1, you don't need to do another one - you just need to have enough rebels on Intel to detect Lib 2, which will be labeled "Liberation" in the objectives. That said, you have no way of knowing if you actually completed Lib 1 until you detect Lib 2 so it...
by mattprice516
Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:44 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Balance: gunner secondary, chameleon suit
Replies: 51
Views: 66316

Re: Balance: gunner secondary, chameleon suit

Specifics of how it all works are a bit beyond my ability to explain concisely (a lot of those variables don't do all the much in vanilla LW2 IIRC and are just there for configurability), but the Chameleon Suit should be basically as effective as an Advanced Suppressor. Try equipping a soldier with ...
by mattprice516
Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:36 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Do Squads have a gameplay effect?
Replies: 8
Views: 12404

Re: Do Squads have a gameplay effect?

Does the squad actually have any impact on that, or just the officer in squads are easy ways to keep officers with the same troops? It's the second thing. Squads are purely a cosmetic and QoL feature, but they help with keeping officers' preferred troops organized. And I think they're important to ...
by mattprice516
Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:34 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Haven Retaliation Questions
Replies: 17
Views: 25437

Re: Haven Retaliation Questions

There are 2 kinds of retal in LW2: First kind is like vanilla: kill a bunch of dudes on the map before they kill your dudes and every surviving dude will be in the Haven afterwards. Second kind is new: go rescue your dudes while ADVENT endlessly drops dudes and then evac all the rebel dudes and sold...
by mattprice516
Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:31 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Bug Reports
Topic: Haven Defense/ADVENT Invasion missions bugged
Replies: 4
Views: 7877

Re: Haven Defense/ADVENT Invasion missions bugged

Hmm. Sounds like it has something to do with the "kill 1 civvie per turn in fog" behavior, like its not counting as an action on the part of the pod.
by mattprice516
Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:11 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Bug Reports
Topic: Damage calculation bug?
Replies: 10
Views: 12676

Re: Damage calculation bug?

A few other observations: Crit damage from Coil rifle should be 4 unless you have special perks (did you?). One of the +2 damage ammo works on advent only, the other works on aliens only. I don't recall exactly which but you might check because stiletto could be the advent only one which would mean ...
by mattprice516
Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:06 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Bug Reports
Topic: Damage calculation bug?
Replies: 10
Views: 12676

Re: Damage calculation bug?

AP rounds penetrate 2 armor, and that stacks with Coil's 1 penetration. The damage preview and popups for armor piercing (and the display) has had some wonky behavior - if you shoot a dude with 4 armor and you have 3 pierce, "4 armor" will always pop up on the damage result for example. In...
by mattprice516
Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:04 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Bug Reports
Topic: Too much armour?
Replies: 4
Views: 6811

Re: Too much armour?

Above poster is right, this is by design.

You wouldn't want to do 0 damage to certain lategame enemies (or midgame turrets) on a graze, would you? :)
by mattprice516
Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:02 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Bug Reports
Topic: Haven Defense/ADVENT Invasion missions bugged
Replies: 4
Views: 7877

Re: Haven Defense/ADVENT Invasion missions bugged

On invasions, some civvies are rando civvies and some are named rebels from the Haven. The latter will become controllable after rescue and must be evacced.

Not sure about the other stuff - if you have save that reproduces the "5 actions" behavior that'd be useful.
by mattprice516
Wed Jan 25, 2017 3:53 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Do Squads have a gameplay effect?
Replies: 8
Views: 12404

Re: Do Squads have a gameplay effect?

Yup, it defaults to the date the squad was formed but is editable and scrolls so you can fit a good amount of stuff in there if you so desire.