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I just wanted to say that the coil guns are absolutely lovely. I have been sandbagging on plasma because they look terrible. In fact I think I'd have preferred it if coil had been tier 5 instead of 4. Tempted to buy all plasma equivalents of coil and change teh coil damage to plasma stats and keep u...

Send in a shinobi wearing stealth armour. Creep as close to the vial in concealment. Move in, grab vial, activate the world. USe the phase through solid objects and zip outside the wall towards cover in the general evac direction. Watch advent spend most of their turn running around the walls, and a...

I've used this skill once with an assault (AWC skill) at point bank on a gatekeeper. It crit for 13 but that was it, no death. It did have 7 armour pips but it was left with more than 7 HP so not sure that was the deciding factor. Lots of risk, no damned reward!

Yep this is annoying. I researched them over 1.5 months ago and still have not been able to build any. The cost I sunk into them was expecting a prototype like you get with other things. RNG hasn't given me any Elite Mutons on corpse stealer missions.

I will try to gather one for you tonight. I got the trojan virus message for the first time in ages last night. For a MEC I had shot to death the turn before (basically assuming trojan would not fire) so that's weird. I think this is likely to be some subtle interaction of stuff. Can you point me in...

This bug just meant my best gunner was crit and took 9 damage from superheavy mec that was hacked. At the end of turn it moved and shot her. Supposed to have no actions and take 0-8 damage. Twenty days she's out of action and I really needed her for the invasion that just happened. Please could this...

I've not been following up on leads missions unless I want to start liberation. I will do a few see what happens. As for a story, last nights mission was a blast! Cleared all but 2 pods on a facility mission - shinobi recloaks and finds the gatekeeper pod on the facility building and another 8 pod i...

Killzone is awesome when it works. I'm not sure if it's the same issue or only issue but with the LWPP I experimented with gunner Killzone and much of the time the flakiness resulted from the fact that it seems like the enemy has to run into a Killzone tile. If they're on the edge of the effect the...

I used Master Enemy on a Sectopod in the hope that the resistance haven would have it available for defence. Nope. Shame, any chance this could happen? I mean how fun would that be?

Hi, i have the Trojan virus perk on 3 of my specialists because I use haywire a lot, so it's great to have. First few times it worked but now I've had three missions where it's not done any damage at all. This last time hack was 63% to control (IIRC) so should have done some damage at least. I think...

trihero wrote:Was playing a rookie campaign, didn't lose anybody, then I get a UFO wreck mission late in the game.

Not seen that type of mission yet - in mid Dec. When do they start appearing?

I agree that the game devolves into 1-3 on stealth or 8-10 full combat mode. I don't mind this so much because I like large squad sizes, 5-6 is frustrating for me cos I like my swiss army knife style squads. I think the more critical issue is beyond a certain point you have your top squad & equi...

Also want to add to this that I perma-controlled a sectopod after stunning it, and for the next 10-20 turns of the HQ mission it never regained any ability to fire it's weapon. Still useful in completely obliterating the ayys cover though... lol

1. When you take control over Sectopod (haywire or full override) it cannot use other abilities beside primary fire and his high stance skill. When you use lightning field it does literally nothing, but the cooldown starts ticking. The same goes for the wraith canon, it needs 1 turn to charge and s...

There is one in there for coil as well. Is that one not used? Gauntlet_Secondary_COIL_RANGE=7 Right. We'd had plans for a 4th tier of gauntlet, since we had an artist that was interested in providing the model, but in the end it didn't make it in. Gameplay-wise it works, but there's no unique coil-...

I let the chased by UFO DE complete even though I detected a mission for it. (wish I could have detected the one for venom rounds, I would have sacrificed a couple troops to prevent that one) The reason for this is that I'm in December and I've still not had the avenger defence mission yet. I really...

I've heard they are nerfing sat fire a lot, so hold onto those build ideas :O Why? It's the only thing that makes my gunners worth taking IMO. Without that I'd rather have rangers. Suppression is so crap in LW2 once the ayys have some decent dodge and tac sense etc. They can move with only about a ...

I've been thinking lately about next time not picking ghost grenade, but instead volatile mix to extend smoke/STINGs to unheard of radii, and as well as possibly finally get that frost grenade out of the dusty locker. I typically find my shinobi doesn't have that hard of a time staying concealed, a...

Technicals suck. After April I stick the ones I have as haven supports. They are a liability. Maybe I am doing it wrong but Vet mid December I always have a flame tech in my squad. WIth a subcoiler & WAR & Chitin & Hazmat. Most take extra flames, my 1 rocket spec an extra rocket. Settin...

I respecced most of my techs to flamers, much more useful as long as they have an SMG and can be commanded to help place the flames. Always with fortify as well. I like them but the chance to apply burning seems too low to me, which can easily leave the agressive move you just made as a folly. Rocke...

I usually seem to have 2-3 in my inventory without trying hard for it by October or so. Oh, I've found one by end Nov so that may be why doom is fast approaching for me. Got mine by skullmining I think. I have left a lot of missions to get leads however, because my big teams are busy/can't infil in...

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

I have found that swords are really very strong for me. I've got the tier 3 one now, and 2 shinobi's with reaper. So they can either take out a single target and move back into cover with indomitable. Or, and this is what has essentially saved my whole campaign from being bogged down in advent HP, t...

Killzone is awesome when it works. Out of a dozen killzones I've dropped 2 worked well, 3 shot 1 target and the other 7 did sweet FA. Find it very annoying. I did think it was range / LOS issues but now I think it's bugged - tonights fail ended with a drone out in the open in the middle of where I h...

Well that sucks! I have several soldiers where I've taken flashbanger thinking "great, a flashbang without the move penalty" since I value movement over consumables on a lot of my troops. This is a trap AWC perk then IMO. I think I've used them a couple of times, but mostly it's just a pen...