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I see a lot about trying to make the current missions being less viable for small stealth teams (not even about making them viable for medium teams, just about punishing stealth). How about we talk more about designing some for mission types specifically for medium teams and how the medium size can ...

To note I do think your stealth shinobi could use rapid fire as the last ability, I've had my my stealth shinobi go on wild flanking adventures when I got myself in a bad spot and start harassing the enemy from behind taking down a few very important targets. Since he also has a pistol for shadowfal...

I do have a silly soft crowd control ranger build that I use, it hinges on having venom or dragon rounds.
Walk Fire, Suppression, (something), Grazing Fire, Formidable, Tactical Sense, (something).
It's function is basically to apply fire/poison to targets every turn keeping enemies out of the fight.

It's also worth noting that Precision Shot is more attractive to Snap Shot snipers as it gives you back the ability (on a 3 turn cd) to snipe from range on the occasions where you find yourself in a position where you wish you didn't have Snap Shot Wait, precision shot ignores the snap shot penalty?

Have you guys heard about the XSkin mod? Anyone know how to make it compatible with the coil weapons?

And not just fire, but be the best overwatch frontliner in the game. They can't... Rangers are better than them. Higher aim progression, Rapid Reactions gives 3 shots over Sentinel's 2, and Grazing Fire makes them more reliable. Also, Rangers get the option to drop kill zone for combat fitness. Whi...

And imagine that first pod having a single real tough target, like a Sectopod or worse. Set up others on overwatch to take out the trash and use Shadowstrike on the Big Bad, preferably Rupture from a Ranger or Gunner or someone with it as an AWC perk. Nice if they had Shredder too. Rupture is an au...

LordYanaek wrote:I don't even know what this movie is, but probably the french title doesn't look like "équipe a"

"L'agence tous risques" from the looks of it

LordYanaek wrote:The MSGT sniper perk is Alpha Mike Foxtrot (maybe someone with knowledge in the military can explain the name ) and gives +4 damage instead of +2 for Lethal.

I don't think it's miltary per se but it's a quote from the movie "The A-Team"

1) Version: 1.1 2) Windows 3) http://pastebin.com/XSnqGZG6 4.1) SPARK - Finish AWC training of a soldier. Enter the soldier AWC skills menu in the armory. Navigate through soldiers using TAB key. Notice a SPARK has a button to train in the AWC. Press button, AWC menu comes up normally. Select Sprint...

The thing about the SPARK is that Cool Under Pressure, if you're building down the tank route, isn't really as useful as another armor point as you won't be over watching as much.

I find psi ops to be spectacular, just takes the extra investment. Solace and Fortress extending to nearby teammates is wonderful. Stasis to lock down anything without fail for a round. As far as I can tell, Solace doesn't actually extend to nearby teammates. The ability description makes it sound ...

I don't think it ignores the cover bonus, but I think it doesn't have the standard OW penalty, so it's like you shot a standard shot at them. I don't use Covering Fire so I could very well be wrong, but I thought that's how it worked? No, actually, nevermind. I just tested it and it applies both th...

Psi abilities hit chance is calculated similarly to weapon accuracy, actually. Your "aim" is the psi offence start, each ability has an innate bonus (insanity has +30), and the enemy "defense" is their will. So yes, you're in general really inaccurate because of how those number...

The Lost Advent Trooper was actually a bug, or rather an oversight, and has since been resolved either in 1.1 or been resolved for 1.2.

I will state two things about rulers in LW2: First, they don't have a Ruler Reaction with 100% chance, I think it's 25% chance. Maybe more depending on difficulty, but it's not 100% and thus they are far, far, FAR less deadly. Second, I have yet to see them in timed missions, only encountered them o...

Just a heads-up for anyone who this is bothering - particularly those who don't want to have to use a PCS slot for the patch - XcomLW_SoldierSkills.ini contains this line: REQUIRED_TO_HIT_FOR_OVERWATCH=1 ; any to-hit chance below this won't trigger overwatch Assuming that it works as advertised, ch...

Apparently they're adding a new mission type, smash and grab, that awards materiel and looks like it's aimed to be a mid sized mission given the infiltration timer on it, but it's still a choice between sweep or steal and run.

Psi abilities hit chance is calculated similarly to weapon accuracy, actually. Your "aim" is the psi offence start, each ability has an innate bonus (insanity has +30), and the enemy "defense" is their will. So yes, you're in general really inaccurate because of how those numbers...

As far as I understand it, it's the distance as the attack is activated. Wether that's a blue move or a yellow move is not relevant. If you're standing right next to the guy there's no bonus. If you blue move 8 tiles away, then target, you get +2. If the guy was 16 tiles away when you targeted you ...

Yeah I was wondering about this claim that concussion rockets are good for cover destruction. After seeing those comments here, I've tried it a couple of times on supposedly easy cover targets like half-cover rocks, and trees, and such, to literally no avail. Not a single thing destroyed, albeit th...

If you're going full aggression with this build, consider: Do you have a second overwatch build soldier? If yes you want Threat Assessment, if not you probalby want Killzone.

AWC will not in fact award a perk that is already in their skill tree.

Just to add one thing on the matter of the Flashbang and Arc Thrower discussion, remember the higher tier Arc Throwers stun for 3 and 4 AP, meaning another half a turn or a turn of stun, with a T3 thrower you can keep any single enemy permanently locked out and that is useful for incredibly powerful...

WOW! So if a pair of pods come by a flank during alien turn can wipe out my squad? In my case were 3 flanked shots plus a zombie for next turn... Also, let this sink in: depending on how and how long you're engaging a pod the AI will send another pod on a wild flanking maneuver exactly to catch you...