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A good game with a technical relies on being able to burn well while concealed. Without that, the flamethrower is not used well(I sometimes use it instead of the main gun because it is guarantied damage on the one target) Burn when concealed ? How on earth do you get close enough to enemies to catc...

The way I use squads is like this: Most of my squads are set up as 5-men teams with 1 Shinobi, 1 Specialist, 2 shooty-killy dudes (Gunner, Ranger, Snapshooter or Assault) and 1 crowd control dude (grenadier or tech). Usually the Spec or Tech will be the officer. Then I have a giant pool (at least as...

On the subject of Technicals, is it intended that a Tech can't use a Shredder Cannon on his/her exo suit, and has to pick a rocket or flame tanks? I found this weird when I got my first exo suit, was hoping to add more utility to my Tech rather than just another charge of an existing ability. Prett...

I have been wondering about something. It seems what really trivializes these 0% Supply Raid/Troop Columns missions is your ability to just camp in a corner of the map in high cover and wait for pods to arrive. What if you just can't do that? What if you can't take 20 turns scouting around the map w...

Beer fountains and street orgies.

My problem with the Stock is that you're essentially committing to 3 actions for a buffed shot once you use Steady Weapon. Your action this turn. Your blue action next turn (coz you can't move or do any other blue action or you lose the buff!) and your next shot. This is less of a problem with a Sni...

I've gone on a mission before, in a city center, that I'm pretty sure was some kind of faceless "trap". I think it was 9 or 10 civilians turned into goop monsters while I was trying to work my way to the objective, and I'm pretty sure this was *before* I got the dark event that puts facel...

Currently, I know I have at least one faceless in one of my four liberated regions, but replacing my engineer advisors with soldiers will likely cost me more in supplies than just letting him steal things.... Yeah, you just have to live with the fact that sometimes faceless will impact your resourc...

Currently, I know I have at least one faceless in one of my four liberated regions, but replacing my engineer advisors with soldiers will likely cost me more in supplies than just letting him steal things....

And yeah, autoloaders are pretty useless without the mod. Very often I will finish a pod with 1 or 2 rounds left and then I'll have to either waste an autoloader use or go into the next fight unable to use some of my abilities that needs multiple rounds. So what you're saying is that standard autol...

I downloaded the mod so long ago that I forgot autoloader didn't work that way in the base game. And yeah, autoloaders are pretty useless without the mod. Very often I will finish a pod with 1 or 2 rounds left and then I'll have to either waste an autoloader use or go into the next fight unable to u...

LW2 is great in that it forces you to have depth of roster, it’s not enough to have A and B teams, but C and D as well. One of the challenges is how to train up your C and D teams. I agree that training up soldiers lategame can be better, but are you including stealth teams as C and D teams? Or do ...

Officer Capt: Jammer Being able to delay enemy reinforcements at critical times is vital. Especially consider that the other option, Fall Back, often fails spectacularly as soldier go the wrong way and even activate more pods. Many of the things you said are disputable, but this is the one I have t...

Just have all Supply Raids spawn you smack dab in the middle of the map in the lowest elevation, done!

Regarding Oscar Mike's usage outside of rescue, I have on occasions used it to get a concealed but slowpoke squad of 5-6 (I'm still trying to use them, dammit) to run pass a disabled drone/turret or a patrolling pod. I very rarely use it on rescue/kidnap missions, I find just using Command to usuall...

But you know you have to prioritize them since it's the first major objective given to you at the start of the game. So unless you decided not to pay any attention to the major objectives, you don't want to skip them every time (skipping a few really short ones is OK and won't cost you your game). ...

I think there's something weird with Trojan; recently I haywire stunned a drone, and on the turn that trojan hit, it got reduced to one hp. Then the game lagged, then it blew up, and then I was unable to hack a post in the same turn, but I could hack a post in the next turn. And I think it started ...

I'd argue that doing no harm is, according to the state of the community prior to LW2, not letting then learn everything, also requiring missions to level. The hilarious part about so many complaints on LW2 is that they did what the general community wanted prior to it (like stealth missions). Yeah...

trihero wrote:I really want to try a sword/shotgun shinobi but dem scout shinobis are so stronk =.=

Maybe shinobis should switch places with psis; you have to build a "stealth lab" to train shinobis and they might not be able to learn conceal or phantom.

Faceless!! We have a Faceless here!!

I see all those Soulfire complaints Yet a lot of praise for Combat Protocol What gives? At least for me, you get CP super early and it's an extremely good counter to the drones in the early game. As long as you upgrade your Gremlins, it scales decently into the mid game due to its double damage aga...

I really don't think we need to nerf these mechanics so much as focus on making 5-6 man missions actually rewarding/favorable to do. Stealth missions aren't guaranteed successes depending on map layout and a bit of luck, plus there are events that make stealth missions super hard to do (vigilance, ...

wadeanthony wrote:
I agree, In fact I don't think the below abilities should end your turn. (I can'r remember if Stasis does)

Stasis does not end your turn, which is why it's ridiculous that so many other worse abilities does.

I honestly wouldn't hate Mind Merge as much if it didn't end your turn....

Pfft...I have never met a pod on a Supply Raid or Troop Column after breaking concealment that wasn't already on yellow alert, since these missions tend to generate lots of dead alien bodies and explosions.

On a less chastising note, can the war really go on indefinitely if facilities are periodically destroyed, setting back the doom counter? Is there a limit to how powerful the aliens get or can Dark Events stack up endlessly? I heard you can buy time destroying facilities and the like, but that the ...