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Not sure why you are doing such an issue about "destroy the device". Unless you bring a sizeable team with like 3 snipers, you'll spend quite some time shooting at that relay and out of cover, enough time that you're not safe from wandering pods with your 2 guys (the shinobi being busy obs...

I've had it trigger a couple times but it's rare. Also from my Psi Op's chances at insanity i would say that aliens like Mutons and Vipers have surprisingly lower will than an Advent troopers so you probably have better chances at making a muton panic than common troopers. But yeah, seems like this ...

Not guaranteed to get solace, and in my game mind whips are only -10 will and +10 psi offense. And yes I use them anyways. Woohoo, soulfire goes from 4-6 to 5-7. (and void rift stuck at 2-3) Just checked, you're right, it's only +10. Well, you wrote you had solace on those psi troopers didn't you? ...

The number of missions isn't really an issue since you can take them out of the tank and resume training when they return, what is an issue is the infiltration time that's basically lost time. I think with the way they now require normal levels to gain xp, the tank time could be reduced. It's probab...

Wait. ... Iron Curtain is an AOE guaranteed hit? I doubt it, nothing in the description says this, quite the contrary as it states somewhere "if this attack hits ..." Now, if it's a guaranteed hit, that's another story of course :shock: Just wanted to add i've just ran into a fight with a...

I think you don't give Psy Ops enough credit. They were totally overpowered in vanilla which is probably why they look bad now that they are simply good. - neither of them have 100 psi offense (both have 93, ouch) Did you equip them a mindwhip? -20 will is of no concern once you have solace and +20 ...

I like SMGs on grenadiers and techs too. Occasionally i give the bolt caster to a grenadier cause they don't fire often so the 1 ammo isn't such an issue but otherwise it's SMG always. Once you reach higher tech, the difference in damage is proportionally lower and the bonus to move is huge, not to ...

Iron Curtain isn't just useful for slowing down the enemy. It's also a cone AoE attack, like Trench Gun, Street Sweeper, Technical flamethrower attacks, and Gunner's own Saturation Fire. The issue i have with this is that gunners aren't exactly a mobile class, or at least my gunners aren't terribly...

Assaults can be built as great support units now. Electroshock means every Arc Thrower shot will apply a debuff. It's also the perfect answer to heavy gunners area suppression, you might have 10% chance to stun them, but as soon as you disorient them they loose their suppression. I don't have that m...

Iron Curtain is, IMO, far superior to Demolition. Gunners have far better things to do than take out one lousy tile of cover. Maybe. Well, i'm in my first campaign on veteran so strategies might be different on higher difficulties but i'd sure rather destroy one cover for sure than fail at destroyi...

Pawnman, you forgot good defense, regeneration, close combat specialist to kill those assaults trying to get a sure shot and the ability to jump on roofs to flank your snipers

Yeah, outsiders in LW1 were so easy compared to the enemies in LW2

I agree generally that stealth is slightly too good on some of those maps. Or too reliable at least -- it should be possible to pull off a stealth win as you describe, but I shouldn't be able to count on missions going that way. Oh please don't ask the devs to put some random out-of stealth system ...

One of the things LW2 introduced that vanilla XCom2 was missing is viable stealth strategies so i sure don't want to see stealth reduced to "easy first pod" as it was (mostly) in vanilla XCom2. That being said, for those 2 particular missions, possibly something could be done to make Adven...

I don't think there is an official word on what exactly a haven is from a lore PoV. I think of the resistance as plenty of small cells, in and out of the cities. This becomes apparent when you need to rescue some of those operating inside cities and free them. People you free from jail will go insid...

Yeah, maybe sapper is great once you have Combat engineer in addition to be able to blow every cover but one of them is your first perk and the other one your last one. I don't really want to have a dead perk until i reach master sergeant.

Sapper takes the cake imo. Needle grenades, especially on the higher difficulties where 1 grenade will rarely kill enemies anyway, is just a luxury perk. Can't really talk about the higher difficulties, i'm playing on veteran, but my needle grenadier rarely outright kills non-wounded enemies. What ...

I think I had a Dark Event go into effect while I was infiltrating on the mission to counter it. Has anyone else seen this? Is it intended behavior? This was a vanilla bug caused by the (hidden) dark event timer finishing while the skyranger was flying towards the mission. I had this a few times in...

That's what i expect. Probably those structures are fixed to 100% to hit chance, but then grazing band turns the lower 10% (or whatever value you specify) into a graze. I guess grenades and other auto-hits abilities can also graze. I've never seen a combat protocol graze but i think i had a grenade ...

You get corpses from winning certain types of missions; that's it. To continue the feel of the resistance so that you're not grabbing bodies when you have to bail out fast This makes a lot of sense, much more than all the kill everyone missions in vanilla XCom2, however i have to join the OP in tha...

I think in all Advent Raid missions, Advent start with all pods on Yellow alert (it makes sense because they are actually coming for you so they are not surprised at all), however on those raid missions they can also spawn within vision range of your troops/operatives and as a result can get their s...

OK, thanks. I guess the tech requirement is what makes it invisible, the other requirements are usually soldier ranks.

Am i missing something? Every facility with a possible upgrade shows it before you meet the requirements. I don't see an upgrade for the psy lab. Did the devs remove it? Are we supposed to train only a single psy trooper? With the new limitation on the number of perks a psy trooper can gain it would...

Menace One Five, we are picking up a wall of text heading towards your location ;) OK. I think the issue with Dark Events goes beyond pure balancing of the game difficulty. Dark Events are random. Even if you add some controls as to which DE shows early and which one shows late, they will stay semi...

Reminds me that i have seen some strange 1 damage on alien transmitters which means they can also probably be "grazed" despite being immobile auto-hit structures.

That mission and the next (last liberation) are tough You are assaulting heavily guarded advent installations. You must be prepared for this. half of squad has lasers Or in other words, half the squad was missing laser. Laser for everyone is probably a must for this mission. You can do without armor...