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Tactical DEs are the permanent ones, while steategic DEs are the temporary ones, is that correct?

I have always been quite lucky with DEs before, but my newest campaign (Commander) started off with the one giving 15 defense and armour to OWers and Center Mass. That got me thinking. Is there a point where you should abandon a campaign based (mainly or peripherally) on the DEs you got? How much do...

Just in case this isn't solved already: make contacting regions and getting soldiers a priority, and keep your squads busy. I usually hit 4 contacted regions and about 4 of each soldier in May (Commander difficulty, but reduced GTS training time). And I rarely have more than 5 soldiers sitting at ho...

But the second shot doesn't count for the purpose of DfA, according to this thread, does it? That's quite a negative point for DT IMO.

That may very well be it. This is my seventh start, but I never had this few areas contacted when i got to Resistance Radio, so I didn't pay attention to who I had contact with beforehand. Thanks.

I just researched Resistance Radio on my current 1.4 campaign and noticed South America and Oceania have no continent bonus shown. The whole label, along with the continent name, are simply missing. Is this a bug or a mechanism I'm unaware of?

Unfortunately, Mutons are the pod leaders for the vast majority of the game and with decreased pod size, it's usually feasible to hard control or kill 2 enemies and negate the muton through combatives - especially as you don't even have to spend actions to kill the Muton - it will kill itself over ...

I think a melee counterattack only makes sense if I can bait melee enemies with it with at least some reliability. I only pick it for this utility, and consider it very situational. In my opinion, it's also not that much of a hard counter for Mutons - putting it next to a Muton requires it not being...

(1) What are you trying to accomplish with this post?
(2) Do you think you are going to accomplish it, using that tone?

Does an incendiary grenade count as an explosive (heavy ordnance) or as a support (rapid deployment) grenade in terms of perks? Same for gas.

Quite a basic question, but I actually didn't find out on ufopaedia.

it isn't difficult to get at least two people in an area suppression. You don't "get" them anywhere. Nothing in the game lets the player move them where they want*. Maybe your pods scamper differently, but the advent I encounter all stand exactly one tile too far apart**. I got that a lot...

There comes a point where actions speak louder than words. Instead of your current approach ("Devs, spend unknown amounts of dev/tester hours to make it happen because Persuasive Philosophy"), why not ask how to make your own LW2 mod so you can directly experiment and present the communit...

On timed missions I'd rather just kill things with a walk-fire ranger than use a gunner to suppress. Walk fire is a little better in that regard, but you can grazing fire with the gunner. That said, a gunner's HoB is a lot more reliable than a ranger's Walk Fire (but makes you miss out on Shredder)...

But even if the checkbox on game start isn't checked, there should still be the rulers in the game. Which should have appeared by now, I assume (never played without checkbox before).

Huh. I didn't get very far yet, only about August, but I enjoy my Gunners a lot and I consider them very flexible. It doesn't take a lot to make Suppression effective, I basically just take CUP, slap on that OW-enhancing weapon mod and build the rest for shooting. - No enemy in sight? OW with decent...

Whenacontrolled MEC dies, it creates an empty loot event when you move near. That's what threw you off.

In my case, that empty loot event also hid the loot marker on the ground in case the controlled unit was carrying something.

Speaking of which, if I control a MEC carrying loot, do I get the loot?

Maybe a few OWers laid back a bit behind (out of alien sight) the shinobi, in case the enemies don't take the bait? Carries the risk of the aliens running and shooting the OWers instead, of course. That was my setup, though I kept my shinobi hidden and had the guys running into my OWers directly. Oh...

2) Create a "nature preserve" for low level ADVENT missions. The region is basically stuck at 3. Sure, a UFO might occasionally land directly on the region and give it a legion or two, but those will quickly be knocked back out by the Troop Column mission. [...] I can get Troop Columns in...

Once you get to the perk that lets you shoot everyone in sight, Arc Pulser means more targets. And depending on your respec options, respeccing may take too long to be viable. Nope, chain lightning doesn't works with arc pulser, I've tried but that was in 1.1 I haven't tried this myself, didn't get...

Once you get to the perk that lets you shoot everyone in sight, Arc Pulser means more targets. And depending on your respec options, respeccing may take too long to be viable.

Huh. How much aim would you guys consider necessary on a sharpshooter holo officer?

Out of curiosity, do most people play through the majority of every run they start, committing to a full run through attempt after gatecrasher. Or do they play several short campaigns to "loss", until they get one they feel will take them to water world and play it through. I feel like it...

It's not only to dodge grief IMO. When the patch comes out is highly dependent on how testing goes. If testers find issues, then another round of working and testing is needed, which can take weeks. This is especially bad on balancing changes as fixing the issue is very non-trivial. So the potential...

You can "cheat" using some Commander's Choice mod or reload until you get the chosen or at least an acceptable class. Which I consider perfectly valid - why should class choice be random? In the last case, keep in mind that class distribution isn't entirely random. Seems to me they build a...

Yeah, this question was motivated by your report, among other things. I have a region strength 3, vigilance 17 in my current playthrough. The region has only liberated neighbors, so no troop movements. I ran full intel on this one, specifically to create an UFO trap. Worked once, but then 40+ days o...