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As I understand it, there are occasional 'strong' or 'weak' pods in mission schedules, which have an effective boost or penalty to Force Level. That's how you can run into the odd MEC while still in March, and why you keep on seeing basic ADVENT Troopers way past the point where they're a threat any...

Not sure where you got this idea from. Few people said anything even close to that. The majority of the posters seem concerned about either the need to nerf fire grenade at all (they don't think it's too strong, possible because they never played mass fire grenades on everyone), others (myself incl...

I'm kind of curious: given that the prevailing opinion of a lot of the posters in this thread seems to be that to win missions you need a 100% accuracy, high-damaging attack that automatically disables its target for a turn, what do you guys do when you don't have them? Do you just not attempt any m...

In my last campaign, I started turning down some missions (mostly engineer VIPs) in September, stopped doing about half the mission types in October, and by November I was doing Golden Path and stealth missions for intel and nothing else.

I'm one of the other Legend balance testers, and IMO the Sharpshooter LCPL perks are some of the most interesting and well-balanced in the game. It's one of the only ranks in LW2 where I'll typically pick all three perks over the course of a campaign (as opposed to something like LCPL Technical wher...

Treat missions with this low a timer not as missions but as information popups. You now know exactly when and where the retaliation will happen. Take the opportunity to install a high-level fully geared Haven Advisor and get a combat team ready to run the retal.

Guardian is a level 1/2 AWC perk, while Sentinel and Rapid Reaction are both level 3 only. That's the balancing factor. Guardian isn't meant to be as strong as its big brothers.

2. Squad cohesion seems fairly pointless right now. There are two points to this, the UI clickfest when trying to assign squad members as haven advisors (such a PITA) which I know nothing can really be done about it afaik. The second point is that the nature of the changes in 1.3 have made it such ...

^I also have to respectfully disagree with the above post regarding the risk of personnel loss. Even if I rush at break-neck speed to engage the enemy on the pre-deployed advent (i.e. vanilla "Terror" style) missions, I can expect to lose anywhere from 3-5 personnel. Not all the retals yo...

The workshop only needs to be adjacent to 3 engineer-using facilities. Even 2 is okay if they're ones you're going to want permanently filled after a certain point (e.g. Resistance Comms). So it's fine to use a workshop-adjacent slot for a GTS or whatever. For training and research buildings, the so...

a Shinobi, 2 Technicals, and a Grenadier The reason Jo and X can get away with running midgame missions with bad equipment is that they're using classes that don't need equipment to be good. Technicals are exceedingly strong in the early game, probably the strongest class in all of LW2, and Shinobi...

It is okay for things to be challenging. But we need to be awarded for defeating a challenge. And the way that retaliations work is that we are never awarded for success, we are punished for it. Personally, and I assume most people, would want to build up a haven. Keep on making it stronger. Keepin...

I'm not sure how you're so low on resources. If you've had no scientists then presumably you're getting a bunch of other missions, so you should have a decent amount of supply, at least? I found that once I researched lasers I was able to equip my squads with them fairly quickly. Finding cash for Pr...

I mean... yes? Absolutely you'd want contacting the Blacksite region to be cheap, that's kind of... the point? You try to use radio towers to make expansion into strategic territory more affordable. Whether I have slightly-cheaper radio towers or radio towers that get more expensive even if I get a...

And currently, proceeding with that "core gameplay loop" gradually takes away that lifeline until you basically can't make use of it, if you haven't already. That's not really how it works. At the point you're currently at in your campaign, the price of radio towers is prohibitive, so if ...

In either case, I can't divine the true gameplay intentions behind the radio tower changes in 1.3, but if I were to put on my game design hat for a minute, I'd assume it was to try and encourage players to interact with their regions more, and run more missions. It was to encourage players to inter...

If you get your first radio tower by paying for it with supply, your second radio tower costs X. If you get your first radio tower by getting it for free via Lib 4, your second radio tower costs X. If you take the second approach, you're already getting a free radio tower. You don't get a double dis...

I find the reward underwhelming for the planning and risks involved. That said, it is no surprise that most people liberate a single (required) region per campaign. It's simply not worth it. You can easily get the same loot from 1-2 supply raids with a fraction of risk / squad investment. Not even ...

It's always worked that way, and it's probably intentional. I guess it's supposed to represent the psi user going "hey, step out into the open where we can kill you please, kthnx." Still really freaking annoying when it happens to you.

You can't really go 4 man squad. That is the stealth setup. A 4 man squad won't deal with many of the 3-pod types (e.g. 1 muton 2 sectoids). You need on average 2 solders / higher than 7 hp mob. Most of the time you kill 2 and lockdown the last. In 4 man you trade shots quite a lot => soldiers in h...

Troop shortages are a much greater pressure in 1.3/1.4 than they were in 1.2. One thing that helps is using squads of 4-5 instead of 5-6 where possible. Having one less soldier makes the mission a bit harder but both cuts the infil time by 20% or so and gives you an extra soldier for the duration. H...

This is the famous and mysterious Gatecrasher Snek, spoken of in stories. Only Legend players have seen it, and even then it's an elusive creature, rarely encountered in the wild.

If you make sure to bring a Technical on invasion missions, you can generally deal with the relay by rocketing the roof it's standing on. Makes for a good way of telling Advent "no more reinforcements, please".

Also all Rupture effects stack . (unless I'm mistaken) There's an ini setting in 1.3/1.4 to make them stack or not. By default that setting is on, so repeated hits with a plasma weapon will do +1, +2, +3, and so on. Handy when you have a soldier with a lot of attacks, or for dealing with high-armou...

Alketi wrote:It seems like some of these might be attribute issues with the cover obstacles and fixable in the maps themselves, but I'm just spitballing.

They're locked to the map in many cases, yeah. Unfortunately they're not at all easy to fix.