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Personally, I don't think anything needs to be "done" about Overwatch. It may have had a different impact/effectiveness in Long War 1, but XCOM EU and XCOM 2 are different games, and overwatch by extension works differently. Personally, it seems to work just fine in my opinion. I have a f...

I don't really understand your first point. "except when you have to move out of your heavy cover to reach them". I'm pretty sure he means that, while it is generally better to be on the attack, if you have to give up a strong defensive position to do so, it is often better to set up heav...

I don't understand why Specialist even has an overwatch build. They have the lowest aim progression, no defense perks and are rarely the type of soldier you want to put near the front line. The whole class seems like a loosely cobbled together and neutered version of the LW1 medic, which at least h...

Personally, I don't think anything needs to be "done" about Overwatch. It may have had a different impact/effectiveness in Long War 1, but XCOM EU and XCOM 2 are different games, and overwatch by extension works differently. Personally, it seems to work just fine in my opinion. I have a fe...

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I would guess the OP is doing a lot of Supply Raids and Troop Columns. Both have a huge effect on your lead over advent, as they remove a point of strength from the map and add 3-4 points of Vigilance. The more Vigilance you create, the more Supply Raids that appear, and you can see how it can snow...

[0117.94] ScriptLog: Regional AI (Totals) -- Force: 272 ; Alert: 53 ; Vigilance: 185 Hoooleeee I thought I was punching ADVENT in the mouth when I had a 40 point lead. You have a 132 lead, and ADVENT strength is super low. I didn't think this level of strategic victory was even possible. Okay, so a...

I would be interested to see what your regional alert/vigilance values look like. The command to run is LWDumpRegionInfo it will show up in the Launch.log which would be in 'My Documents/My Games/XCOM2/XComGame/Logs. Word of warning, don't open this with notepad if you have been playing for awhile....

I just checked and I currently have exactly 40 master sergeants, 21 gunnery sergeants, 15 tech sergeants, 18 staff sergeants, 11 sergeants, and 2 lance corporals - for 106 soldiers in total. This is why you have so few Avatar pips. With that many soldiers, and with that many ranks, you have doing m...

I don't think so, but for god's sake, don't run it again!!!! I have a second alien ruler mission as well (it's the alien ruler DLC, so therefore I call it the alien ruler mission, rather than the nest, for what it's worth). I will never click anywhere near it, as I hear the second mission can't be c...

I thought it was mentioned. You get 2 axes. One is for throwing, the other for hacking.

Once enemy readiness gets to vulnerable, which is the lowest readiness, you're not going to see much more reduction, if any. Generally speaking, once the enemy is vulnerable you should launch the mission.

BTW there are trap missions in Long War 2 ; what are the conditions to get them ? Here's a full list of the requirements/info that I could find between the configs and the template. There can only be 1 in the world. It has a 21-32 day global cooldown. It only spawns in a contacted region. The regio...

This is why we should all listed to the wisdom of Admiral Ackbar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA

The Alien Ruler DLC is super borked in LW2! :( I'm not sure how this will work. I had two missions generated close to the same time, with the Archon King being added to the list of enemies. I left the first Archon King at a little more than half health and 1 armor before he escaped. The second Arch...

If anyone is interested, here's what I currently have to outfit my soldiers in terms of armor and weapons: Armor Predator Armor: 50 suits E.X.O. Suit: 4 Spider Suit: 8 Reinforced Frame (SPARK): 1 Warden Armor: 23 suits W.A.R. Suit: 7 Wraith Suit: 8 Anodized Chassis (SPARK): 1 R.A.G.E Armor Serpent A...

That's a fairly large number of soldiers. I have 65 soldiers above Rookie and 29 of them at Master Sergeant. I can easily enough run 3 major missions (7-9 guys) at a time with some left over for hitting up smaller stuff. I'm just about to liberate my 4th region, but I have 2 other tower missions an...

For what it's worth, I did just see the Archon King again, and it was the second version of him that I fought previously. I know that because that was the one that had all its armor shredded away. Not sure if I'll end up seeing the other one again, but it appears that I have all the appropriate aut...

Thanks for the response. Your points are certainly reasonable. I don't really think of myself as that great of a player -- certainly not one of the best -- so I guess even I'm surprised that I'm doing this well with LW2, even while only on veteran. I will say that a key difference between my play st...

I'm still making my way through my first LW2 campaign, and on the whole enjoying it very much. I'm playing on Veteran difficulty and in full disclosure, while I generally will not save scum, I'm not completely opposed to it every once in a while. I can probably count my save scums on one hand for th...

I'm finding assaults to be extremely useful in my campaign, and currently my soldier with the highest kill count is an assault. Using them with Shinobis to spot is obviously important, but in general you have to wait for the correct moments to employ them. A well placed trench gun shot or street cle...

I really have 3 A-teams - my original 3 squads. I'm pretty predictable with the professions - 1 of each of the 8 classes fill the 8 slots in each. I like to have balanced teams, particularly for the tougher missions where you may need to be ready for anything. These squads are all made up of master ...

For what it's worth, I did just see the Archon King again, and it was the second version of him that I fought previously. I know that because that was the one that had all its armor shredded away. Not sure if I'll end up seeing the other one again, but it appears that I have all the appropriate auto...

Over the course of a campaign, and dozens of soldiers (or more) going on hundreds of missions, I'm sure the cumulative benefit to XP is large. But in practice, it's not likely anything you're really going to notice all that much. I'd say only take Wet Work when you can spare the supplies. Honestly ...

Over the course of a campaign, and dozens of soldiers (or more) going on hundreds of missions, I'm sure the cumulative benefit to XP is large. But in practice, it's not likely anything you're really going to notice all that much. I'd say only take Wet Work when you can spare the supplies.