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Since the graze-band covers both sides of the actual hit-chance, lowering it has two implications: 1. you won't catch a bullet that often and 2. if you catch a bullet, it's more likely that it will do full harm. If you want to answer the question if the average damage done is lower or higher with g...

Have you also researched the Blaster Launcher separately?

The upgrade requires Powered armor (Warden Armor) research and can be done from the Engineering room where you buy more items. The same applies for the Serpent Armor upgrade. You get similar upgrades for the Alien Hunter weapons at Mag Weapons and Plasma Rifles research. It's also worth mentioning t...

It means only 3 "rebels" were at the data tap when ADVENT retaliated. You can't draw any conclusions about any of the haven members from this. The game randomly assigns 3-6 rebels who were working the intel job to the mission. Some of these may be faceless in disguise. Some of the guys tha...

The most tangible bonus of combat fitness seems to be the two hp, so it's mostly used to just kind of fill out a tank build with some stats, or push a squishy character out of the danger zone. It seems rather uninteresting though, even worse it seems underpowered, does anyone wanna vouch for its us...

I hope my comments didn't come across as braggadocio, as that's the furthest thing from my intent! I just wanted to level-set so people knew I don't play like my 11-year old son does, dashing to low-cover in the FOW to reveal two pods, and then griping how "this game is too hard!" . And p...

Ah, that's what I was missing. OK then

Oh, also, it looks like a Stabilized soldier is eligible for Field Surgeon effect in 1.3 and onwards. It only refuses to work if the target is dead or bleeding out (or fully healed) if(SourceUnit.IsDead()) { return false; } if(SourceUnit.IsBleedingOut()) { return false; } if(SourceUnit.bCaptured) {...

Actually, in 1.3 and on, you only need a GSGT to get Override. Considering how long the final level takes, that's a fair difference. I did find that I rarely got to play with my Resistance MECs though (in my 1.2 campaigns). The biggest pain was not having them available on the intel mini-retaliation...

Oh, also, it looks like a Stabilized soldier is eligible for Field Surgeon effect in 1.3 and onwards. It only refuses to work if the target is dead or bleeding out (or fully healed)

Rebels level up over time with a fixed percentage chance based on their current level and after a fixed number of days serving. Higher levels require more time served before a check can be made. Checks can only be made in contacted regions. The check is made at the start of each month. You can't do ...

I wonder if there's special strategic AI that makes ADVENT entrench to defend the Avatar project if things are going poorly for them. In my commander campaign, I have liberated two regions, and ran all sorts of missions in the regions around the liberated areas for perhaps 2 months, but I rarely se...

So I finally got to fire a couple Concussion rockets. They don't destroy terrain at all and biologicals are at-minimum disorientated. So they can be used as either a giant smoke grenade, a giant flashbang or both if you have shotguns to shove in dazed faces. There was one intriguing situation that ...

Interesting. I didn't know the knife had that much potential. I was on the assumption that as soon as you upgraded out of the starting LMG that any knife attacks would be very underwhelming, essentially since knives don't inherit any ammo or many other perk benefits. Do they inherit weapon module b...

Haywire Protocol (full name) is the basic Specialist ability that allows you to hack robots. You get it along with Hack at Squaddie.

Now you are tempting me to try it out. :) That code certainly did not exist in any functional form in the original game, so it will be interesting to check if Pavonis managed to add a sub-system of weapon types. This is how they do it in the shotgun perks: InventoryCondition = new class'X2Condition...

Haywire (full override is a variant of this) is a bit glitchy in general. Sometimes you'll be able to use it every round and other times its cooldown will correctly apply and you'll have to wait some turns. In the case of Full Override, you should only get 1 successful Full Override use in a mission...

The perk could be changed out for something else but then that makes an already sub-par knife just window dressing. Maybe someone else can point it out to me but I'm having a hard time imagining where I'd ever want to use the knife in a point blank situation over the main gun without Combatives. So...

I haven't, but I wouldn't expect this to "fix" characters that already have the old solace unlocked in their perk choices. All it does is correct the dependencies for future unlocks.

Note: The cost of radio relays varies immensely depending on difficulty (see config below). Each "free" radio tower also adds to the cost of buying a new tower outright. JM01's quote of 250 supply would be playing on Classic/Commander and already having picked up a free relay. If you manag...

In my latest datatap, at light-medium strength, I had 2 entire pods spawn in vision of the datatap. Unfortunately for them, they were also mostly in vision of my 8 man team. All 9 of them died in a single turn as I swarmed on top of them with flank shots everywhere. The other two pods turned up in t...

You may take standard shots with your sniper rifle after moving, but you suffer severe range penalties beyond 5 tiles of squadsight range. The additional information accessed by the ? mark elucidates: The soldier may now use the sniper rifle for standard shots after moving, but suffers extreme pena...

According to the comments for Field Surgeon, it appears that its possible for Field Surgeon to apply before or after armor is removed (they have no way to ensure it works one way or the other). So it can be randomly better or worse than you'd think once you start getting health from armor/utility it...

At higher difficulties those enemies appear sooner and a lot more often though. So a possible solution would be just to up the difficulty. The balance in Long War 2 seems to be geared around Commander and Legendary. They don't appear significantly sooner in Commander and Legendary (it's just a matt...

From 1.3 patch notes: - Bugfix for Field Surgeon not applying on minor wounds. I guess that fixes the 1 wound issue. Didn't notice that fix before now.... and probably what caused the bugs that needed to be fixed in 1.4. From 1.4 patch notes: - Fixes to Field Surgeon not always proccing when it shou...