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Gunners can reload every turn and still use their core class ability, Rangers can't. I'd really like them to get +1 ammo just as a base class ability. They're billed as 'masters of the rifle', but at the moment they can't actually use a rifle any more effectively than anyone else without a lot of w...

What I'd really like to see with Rangers would be for them to have a little more ammo than they do now. Give them a level 1 perk that gives them +1 ammo while they use an assault rifle: call it 'Ammo Conservation' or something. One of the big reasons that Rangers compare poorly to Gunners is that l...

Separate question- what leads to resistance members ranking up? I've carefully given every one of 6 members a kill in a spy mission, and only one of them ranked up (...now I think about it I think one may have gotten two kills). Is it a set kill # to aim for, so I can try and rank up 3 members ever...

Does anybody know if there is any negative consebquence by putting too many ebels on the same job? I mean because I throw away my first campaing and restarted with 1.2 and decided to put all rebels on intel on homeregion (and recruit for jails and hacks) and all on recruiting for contacted regions ...

The explosive path of grenadiers is so bad until you get Combat Engineer.

It's a bit of a truism in LW2 that you want to kill or control everything every turn and grenadiers don't really do enough in the kill department after the early game.

I'm think a RT Sharp is used more like an off-scout that can still help the squad while concealed rather than an actual sniper. I have a hard time seeing room in any combat team for that. The more firepower you bring, the faster enemies die, the less likely you're going to get shot, or have added p...

I'm think a RT Sharp is used more like an off-scout that can still help the squad while concealed rather than an actual sniper.

Zyrrashijn wrote:CCS disables RnG upon triggering and vice versa.

Edit: Sorry, thats CE, but i'm sure you were referring to that anyway. CCS is a reaction skill.

Actually CE does not disable RnG. RnG disables CE, but you can CE -> RnG.

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nightwyrm wrote: Which is why I don't like Conceal being moved to MSgt in the next patch.

Wow, is that so?
It must have shown in the patch notes recently. I agree it seems like a really bad idea.

EDIT. Not in the 1.3 patch notes. Where did you read this?

Xavier mentioned it in one of his recent videos.

Yeah, I watched it. My thoughts were 'and this is why you don't try to use 4-5 man combat squads past the early game'. It's just the way LW2 combat works. Doing a combat mission with 8 soldiers is easy; doing it with 6 is twice as hard as with 8; doing it with 5 is twice as hard as with 6; doing it...

Doesn't this make it impossible to actually capture VIPs? In any case, I don't see this as that big of an issue when a Shinobi with Covert and Ghostwalker can reduce sight range so much that he can stand right next to a VIP and not break concealment. Kidnapping instead of killing VIPs are hard enou...

I actually only think it is stupidly broken when capturing VIPs and that 100% needs to be fixed. That is an easy fix just have the VIP have activation movements if someone is flanking them, so you can't blue move and punch them , you could still shinobi slash them just like activating on a pod with...

Maybe if he had a gunner instead of the sharpshooter for suppression, things may have been slightly better... One thing is for sure, disco cadey would have lived if a gunner was sent instead :( I think maybe he brought a Sharp along so he can snipe the VIP as a plan B. Otherwise, I'm not sure why y...

You know a mission's gone really bad when it hinges on the success of a ~50% shot. Watching the video, I'm not even sure there was much he could've done better, except maybe deciding to pull the plug earlier and try to save as many as he could. Yeah, he got unlucky sometimes and missed/grazed a bunc...

But one question I have is how you're using suppression gunners? I've heard others mention this, and I just can't wrap my brain around using reaction fire builds of any sort, at least not on harder difficulties. Once you're engaged in combat, you suppress/overwatch and then wait for the aliens to m...

I dislike the mechanic and think your choices should have permanent consequences. No chance I'm going to lower it in our release versions, but mod to your heart's content. *Slightly off-topic, and completely not feasible in XCOM, but I was reminded of the StarCraft 2 Heart of the Swarm solo campaig...

I assume it's a holdover from EW where you make genemod soldiers from putting them in a vat (tube) of orange goo.

I totally agree with the OP. High retraining time heavily favours pre-planning your soldier builds instead of experimentation. I changed the respec time to 0 for my first few campaigns just so I have can play around with various combinations, which I enjoy doing whenever I'm playing a new game. I do...

Greenburger wrote:Also, aren't the AWC perks random?

The order you get them in is random, but you can get all of them.

So what happened that made armor stacking so much better in LW2? I remember it wasn't a very useful thing in Vanilla. Blast Padding, the Vanilla equivalent of Formidable, was pretty much a non-entitiy.

Isn't mind merge at least a bit decent now it actually lasts through the enemy turn? Like aid protocol it would help a soldier in a bad spot. Or is just not enough hp to matter? Aid Protocol giving defense and actually preventing shots equals to a lot more damage prevented than Mind Merge and AP do...

I didn't even know you get XP if you fail the mission. That seems like an easy oversight to rectify. You do get xp, and it's a game design not an oversight. I read it in the very early days when I started playing LW2. Obviously you get more for success in a mission, but currently the game is balanc...

I didn't even know you get XP if you fail the mission.

That seems like an easy oversight to rectify.

It's safe and reliable, check out xwynns videos and then ask questions if we can help further. Well, here's a big one: What is the penalty for killing a Dark VIP compared to taking it alive? I know in the vanilla game, you lost all of the Intel reward, which here is potentially the entire reward. A...

With Vanilla XCOM2, I love love love the "All Pods Active" mod. It completely removes the bizarre fictional concept of "pod activation", and adds some sensible AI to distant pods so they mostly just overwatch or cautiously blue-move towards the action. It makes flanking more sen...