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Going through the files and trying to understand the different variables governing Aliens, Advent and XCOM soldiers, I do need some clarification about a few. Here is what I have found: eStat_Defense - ?, usually on Spark and some aliens eStat_HighCoverConcealment - ? eStat_Strength - ? eStat_Comba...

SPARKs have a new perk tree, two more HP, and a slightly beefier weapon (4-7 damage at ballistic tier). They come standard with a shredder gun instead of a rocket. I'm not sure how they scale later on, having not brought SPARK-1 on their first mission yet.

So tell me, do these shots yield a graze of 0, assuming dodge is 0? 101% aim, 90 crit 103% aim, 70 crit 105% aim, 50 crit 107% aim, 30 crit 109% aim, 10 crit Assuming my calculations (and understanding of the system) are correct, the graze chances of those shots are 0.9%, 2.1%, 2.5%, 2.1%, and 0.9%...

Wait what? please explain i don't get it deaconivory, what kinds of Reinforcement pods are there that don't arrive via Drop Ship? :S There are two animations that can be used for reinforcements - there's the ADVENT dropship, and then there is the Psi Rift that is used for the Skulljack enemies and ...

deaconivory wrote: 2) The pod mechanics have been completely remastered in LW2.

Good to hear - if you can say, does that include removing the limit on alien species (where all followers of a pod had to be the same type of alien)?

The additions you guys have added to the strategy layer sound awesome, it's difficult to not sound like a giddy fan boy a few quick questions though 1. Can enemy reinforcement drops be anything other then just Advent troops? as in can troop transports now drop aliens? (they can't in vanilla) I foun...

johnnylump wrote: Nah, it just means that everybody has a psi offense score.

Ah, okay. Sounds like an interesting way to do it.

1)Psi score is invisible at first but contributes to stat trades. So, Psi Power is going to be a relevant enough stat to be tracked for normal soldiers? Interested to see how you do psionics if that's the case. 3)Our main pass at psionics, which we are testing now, will be in our first big update. ...

rifleman wrote:What stats is on the right of Hack stats on squad manager screenshoot? Is that infiltration or dodge?

Dodge. I don't think Infiltration is a 'stat' in the same way as things like Aim and stuff, though I could be wrong.

A curiosity regarding rocket scatter: Back in the day, I remember you guys had wanted to implement rocket scatter for EXALT Heavies, but had issues with it causing the game to crash - did you decide to implement that for ADVENT Rocketeers this go around?

There are no additional classes of SPARK in the way that there were new MECs in LW1, but the SPARK has a new perk tree.

A little off topic, but do you think that you could add the additional tiers and other such for DLCs after LW 2? Unless I completely misunderstood what "DLC elements are adjusted to fit in with the scope of the mod for those who have them. " (part of JL's response to my question about mod...

I know this will be far in the future, but do you have any plans on expanding the mod to incorporate the DLC options like Sparks similar to what you guys did for EW? I'm pretty sure "DLC elements are adjusted to fit in with the scope of the mod for those who have them." means they already...

Hey - not sure how much you can get away with talking about at this point, but I had a question: The standalone LW mods (in particular the Laser Pack and Perk Pack) have no built in compatibility with the Shen's Last Gift DLC, so you still have the vanilla SPARK perk tree and no additional weapons. ...

johnnylump wrote:Long War 2 ain't a beards mod.

Hype dead, hopes crushed, subscription cancelled. How could you betray us like this?

Apparently it's stupid question day for me. :oops: I was hoping to take a look at some other mods I've subscribed to that have similar ideas to mine to see how to get started. I have no idea where they are located. Have pity on a poor Rookie. [Steam folder]/steamapps/workshop/content/268500 - Each ...

Yep.

Psi Lance is the Ethereal's normal weapon, essentially a gun but with no ammo limit and a special animation. It hits based on aim but has increased damage based on the difference between the Ethereal's Will and the target's.

Like it says in that article, the people who say they are working on that call themselves (and their mod) 'Dragonpunk' - it isn't LWS, and despite some very ambitious claims made by them around November, I haven't actually heard anything about them post-release, so no idea if they are still working ...

The one mod I'd MOST be interested in is one that makes it so, as soon as you break concealment, all of the pods on the map "split" into individual units and AI works as normal. As it happens, precisely such a mod exists. As soon as you break concealment, all enemies on the map become 'ac...

Another curiosity, and forgive me for asking something trivially easy to just find out for myself once the game releases, but how are weapon damage values set? I've been noticing since the first previews that weapons with the same minimum, maximum, or mean damage values do not necessarily have the s...

Alright, so the little image they showed detailing the things included with the game made me curious - I don't know if you've worked with the map building much, but all the environment props they include, do they have all the needed gameplay information built in by default? What I'm wondering, essen...

While I'm not in a position to speak on the nature of the mods they are creating, I will say they probably haven't had enough time to create anything of that complexity. That besides, XCOM 2 will, as far as I am aware, allow you to enable or disable individual mods from the game's launcher, making t...