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Valaska, I have often taken Implacable myself and it's fantastic, but TBH it's a waste once you get Reaper. I need to respec them to Tac Sense. One difference I make for my blade shinobis is to take Conceal instead of Hard Target. I roll with only one in a squad so they have to scout before reaping....

About Oct/Nov I really hit a difficulty wall with lack of gear (alloys+elerium scarcity since I was a complete LW2 noob and didn't know what was doing for first 3-4months) and only 1 squad of decent ranks. Thinking more about this, and the infiltration mechanic replacing fatigue in LW1 means that e...

Doesn't Firestorm make you Fire Immune? Why do you need a Hazmat Suit on one to make it good? You don't I suppose, but all my techs wear hazmat suits as a matter of course.. so they can move though the flames they cause. I think Pavonis did that because you end up surrounded by flames, but I would ...

trihero wrote:Shredder rounds only shreds 1 armor per hit regardless of what weapon you use it with.

yes, and with a ranger 3 hits = 3 shred with rounds. (LeU+RF)

NoDebate wrote:All his ranged abilities are guaranteed to hit, useful when you're sitting at 83 Aim at MSGT (with Combat Fitness).

All my high rank gunners are sub 90 aim at MSGT. The product of a late GTS...

Yeah, locked on and rapid fire can decimate MECs and shredded sectopods. One of my rangers has shred on her rifle, she can rip apart 6 armor in one turn with rapid. You mean shredder AWC perk? yeah that's a nice one for a ranger. Otherwise the max you can shred is 3 per turn with shredder rounds ri...

Yep had that one before. Only had the 1 medkit too...

WHat about if less than 50% infil, you start with 2 pods in sight range and no concealment - good luck with that !

Goumindong wrote:Bunker Buster(firestorm seems... well strong but god how do you use it safely?)

Safely? Wear a hazmat suit. You have to run way ahead of your squad, into a UFO packed with 3 pods is a good one.

I played xcom 2 the base game 40 hours for the entire year I had it. Long war 2 so far in 2 weeks alone I have clocked in 60 hours. I'd clocked in ~150hours in the vanilla game since release, seeing your post i somewhat sheepishly decided to check steam .. i'm up to 354hours spent now :D First step...

So I got an Incendiary Bomb from proving ground but I can't make any more - is this by design? I suppose maybe it's a balance thing because these are a little OP.

To also make the gauntlet seem cool and balanced, flame throwers should recharge. They look like alien technology powered by elerium after all. They can start off with just one flame throw, with a cooldown of 6.Then they can get rouste later to give them a second type of flame throw. This is the si...

My 2 cents: Ranger, to me, is just a chassis upon which I build my officers later. They are the most likely to be positioned within the center of my group to begin with due to their default skill & equipment sets, which avoids the leadership radius problems that happen if you try to turn someon...

I'm now deep into Feb and battling the doom clock. Just did forge, have blacksite vial coords + a facility so should be ok. :) About Oct/Nov I really hit a difficulty wall with lack of gear (alloys+elerium scarcity since I was a complete LW2 noob and didn't know what was doing for first 3-4months) a...

Last night I had my second downed UFO and only B squad with 4 up to date weapons (plasma rifle & SMG + coil cannon & shottie) couple of warden and 1 WAR rest are in predator. This was VERY HEAVY mission. Half teh squad are using mag, we're in Feb now... so plenty of DEs. Oh, also no sting na...

And it failed last night again, got 22 days in infirmary from that. Next mission I shoot the MEC dead before it turns just like I used to and the trojan virus message popped up for the dead MEC! So it's too unreliable to use for me at the moment. I now have 2 savefiles where it fails.

Is it just me or is finding the ppl to rescue them the hardest part of teh haven defense missions? Last two I have been unable to find 2 of the people, have explored the entire map and they are no where to be seen. It's frustrating to take wounds because you look for too long for rescuing everyone. ...

On a retaliation haven defense mission with a low rank squad in cast off gear, was really tough but just about made it so everyone could escape (except for 2 civs I could not find anywhere on the map, finding the ppl to rescue is the hardest part of the mission - you'd think they would be screaming ...

It's worked on the last 2 missions, no idea what is going on with it. Please let me know how to get the savefile to you.

If you can provide a savefile that reproduces this issue, I'd definitely like to take a look at it. Okay, spent an hour or so finding a save from a mission where I could recall it happening. hacked a mec and went through a few turns killing everything else. The save has the mec and specialist that ...

Cheers for that, they are much better than the vanilla ones, still not a match for the coil weapons though... they're so nice!

I really enjoyed these in vanilla, but in late Nov on Vet with LW2 and not got one. Had a UFO chase but avoided it. Built and maintained the defense matrix for no reason so far. Hoping I get chased again soon :) Got it last night just as I finished my first UFO mission of LW2. Played a couple of tu...

Flamethrowers have a purpose. They *do* work. Xwynn's proven that pretty effectively, but at times they're wonky and not ideal. Generally getting close to aliens sounds like major risk. Main thing that sticks out to me is they aren't as good as incendiary grenades on grenadiers. In xwynn's excellen...

It didn't wow me at first, but after some use a Ranger with shredder and hit'n'run is pretty badass.

Another has Lethal which is also rather nice.

Guardian on a gunner is great for overwatching.

I would like to see the shredder and fire&steel perks swapped. Burnout is too useful if you flame a lot like I do, and I would definitely mix it up between phosphorous and shredder. This way a tech can still be useful when not rocket/flaming by shredding armour.