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Guys this really isn't hard. You use this rocket the exact same way you would use the stasis psi ability. Either hit enemies you have no intention of shooting that turn (like enemies you are running away from or a pod that walked in on your flank), or use it on an enemy AFTER you have taken all you...

The alien hunter weapons are interesting I find. The hunter's axe is really strong, particularly early game, and is worth upgrading throughout the game. Frost bomb is very strong, though is replaced a bit by incendiaries. Shen's last gift, I like SPARKs thematically and they're the only real "t...

My personal preference would be that xp be based on the baseline (eg 100% infiltration) amount of aliens, and nothing else. No kill xp, no bonus xp for underinfiltrating, no loss of xp for over infiltrating. Makes things way less gem-y. Probably is the province of mods, though. Yeah I like that ide...

I'm a GTS first fan, but it was by no means a universally agreed thing in 1.2. Many players argued for AWC first, especially on higher difficulties where GTS times are higher and wounds are more likely. Randomness has a massive affect on any scientist or engineer purchasing strat. With luck you mig...

They probably shouldn't give mission xp. It's definitely a bit of 5 minute tedium to collect your RNF XP at the end of each mission. Might have to house rule this, but first I'm going to push it to find out how broken it is :) . I'm like 80% sure it's possible to have a squad later in the game that...

Pretty much everyone agreed in 1.2 that your first purchase should be a GTS, so that you can start cranking out specialists and shinobis, to farm stealth missions. Also, so you can promote shinobis into officers, making for extremely easy extraction missions with Oscar Mike + Command. None of that i...

I thought reinforcements don't give xp, for exactly this reason. They don't give mission xp, which is the lion's share of the total xp, but they definitely give kill xp. They probably shouldn't give mission xp. It's definitely a bit of 5 minute tedium to collect your RNF XP at the end of each missi...

* You no long start with 3 rookies in the recruit pool. * Also, I suspect the recruit haven job is less likely to make new recruits. Hard to tell for sure, would like someone to confirm/deny if the numbers there have changed. 1st point depends on difficulty. You still get 5 recruits in the pool on ...

* You no long start with 3 rookies in the recruit pool.
* Also, I suspect the recruit haven job is less likely to make new recruits. Hard to tell for sure, would like someone to confirm/deny if the numbers there have changed.

I'm in mid April, what I've noticed so far: 1) Missions with lots of remaining time are easier to detect. 2) Missions with smaller squads are easier, entirely feasible to run extremely lights with 4-5 soldiers, or even 3 very strong soldiers. I always dial the number of rebels on intel to only gener...

So after learning more about how this works, I've now been intentionally farming RNFs at the end of each GOP. I'd say I easily get 10 RNF kills each mission before I have to bug out. I could easily see this going up later in the game when my soldiers get stronger. Conclusions: 1) Farming RNFs is zer...

1) Ten days is a lot more significant when you take into account the huge infiltration times for the golden path missions. Think of it this way: would you rather have your A-team out infiltrating for 25 days straight, or three consecutive infiltrations of 10 days? What if you get a hunter UFO on da...

Some things I noticed, on L/I anyway: * Contacting a region is now 100 intel, instead of 80 intel * Nanofibre is only +2 HP, Tac Vest is +2 HP * Shredder nerfs are mentioned, but looking at inis the difference is that EXO Suit went from 35 to 60 supply, and their environment damage is only 9 now, wh...

Kills are now worth 100% of a kill (lol) point and Wet Work doubles that to 2x. Each MissionXP is at a 5.8x multiplier, so a mission with 9 enemies and a squad of 3 would get each squad member 17.4 kills worth of exp base. It's probably worth taking now, at least. Before it was 33% by a second 33%,...

Can anyone provide % rough estimates for mission XP vs kill XP? Trying to figure out if wet work is worth picking up in the early game.

gimrah wrote:

stefan3iii wrote: Rapid targeting is for sharps who just weren't born to be sharps and go holo officer.

I prefer to take my terrible 60 aim sharp shooters and make them haven advisers.

I haven't gotten far enough in a campaign yet in 1.3, but on paper it looks to me like DfA would be the preferred choice for timerless missions where you can park in a spot a steady->shoot all day. But I think snap shot snipers are probably the superior choice for missions that require some mobility...

Does the free radio tower you get from liberation count towards the increasing cost to manually build radio towers? It does. (The vanilla code just counts how many towers you have when pricing the next one, and I didn't see a compelling balance reason to add a large coding overhead in distinguishin...

I'll piggyback my own question:

Does the free radio tower you get from liberation count towards the increasing cost to manually build radio towers?

I noticed I was able to equip weapon mods without Modular Weapons researched, is that intended? Do you play with Robojumper's squad select mod? Yes, and I did equip it using his UI. If that's the issue I guess just have to remember to not do that. Though to be honest, it's the world's smallest expl...

I noticed I was able to equip weapon mods without Modular Weapons researched, is that intended?

Playing L/I ironman, nearly at the end of march, so far new patch is a big improvement over 1.2. The new smaller pods are more interesting to fight and generally makes fighting through a mission easier, while making stealth harder. On the strategic layer, removing upkeep means I don't just have ever...

Thanks for the informative post. One question: Facilities are still theoretically stealthable, but the +3 evac timer means that you’ll need a good plan and a lot of luck. Does this mean if you don't evac a facility, you fail the mission? I'm pretty sure you could stealth-suicide the mission before, ...

I actually don't like the weapon focused classes, I think it removes an interesting choice from the game. LW2 has them to some extent, but 90% of the time your weapons will be: Ranger: Rifle Assault: Shotgun Sharpshooter: Sniper Gunner: Cannon SMGs on everyone else. Maybe rifle on Specialist. LW1 ha...

In 1.2 I expand as quickly as I can generate intel, building radio towers as needed. There isn't much reason to liberate more than one region, 13 rebels on supply in an un-liberated region will provide about 20% less supply than a liberated one. If for some reason you really have nothing to do with ...