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The science repeatable is OK depending on timing. Sometimes you'll just have nothing better to do and it does get your science done faster overall. The engineering one is pretty useless since it literally just lowers the Engineers requirement on Proving Ground projects by 1 and if you don't have 5 ...

I've yet to discover the first Supply Raid with any decent time left, so I always go with 10-soldiers 0% infiltration, trying really hard to have a team trained and ready for it since it regularly hits mid-late 2nd month. Run all Intel and you'll find them with good time on them. I've started going...

The science repeatable is OK depending on timing. Sometimes you'll just have nothing better to do and it does get your science done faster overall. The engineering one is pretty useless since it literally just lowers the Engineers requirement on Proving Ground projects by 1 and if you don't have 5 ...

Huh. I thought I just had crazy lucky RNG.

I have so many mods installed I wasn't sure it was even a LW2 thing until marceror brought it up.

You need to train up something other than Shinobi or you'll get wrecked on the missions that aren't stealth. Most of which aren't optional. You need to send out combat squads when you can. Anything with a decent timer on it, ambushes, I send out a squad to soak up XP. Towers and HQs I won't go anywh...

I enjoy stealthing because it pissed me off that vanilla presented itself as a game with a stealth mechanic, then outright cheated to prevent you from using it except in the one way the devs intended.

The game is finally about the OBJECTIVE, not shooting everything until you win. Stealth is FUN.

Simple question: Does changing the haven adviser reset progress towards detecting a rendezvous? In my first campaign I was able to detect rendezvous consistently, though that was in 1.0. In subsequent campaigns, I've been micromanaging haven advisers, frequently swapping them out, and am in May and...

There's already a mod that allows the weapons of the hunt to be duplicated, so if Pavonis really wanted multiple copies they wouldn't make it a wierd glitchy method that gives you nothing if you don't do it "right". Personally they might as well be available for manufacture, aside from the...

I've encountered it twice, both times on Troop Column Ambushes, and both times when a pod patrolled through a fire. All the pods just stop moving. For me, activating the pod which set itself on fire results in no scamper moves being taken, but afterwards all pods and units resume movement and combat...

Another on, much simpler: to be able to choose between free and regular reloads. There's already a mod that provides this. Free Reload Anytime Oooooooh, is this confirmed LW2 compatible and it doesn't mess with anything? Because oh my god, do I want this choice. Seems absurd to not have it. The nor...

Frankly I find it to be one of those Rube Goldberg components that's mutually exclusive with a dead simple and super effective ability and as such worthless.

ADVENT can't retaliate in liberated regions. They can only invade. Any rebel not doing something is a total waste at that point. I wouldn't bank on trying to detect the invasion, I'd try to actively draw ADVENT away from adjacent regions, or focus on running Troop Column Ambushes there so that it ne...

IMO, Rangers are an excellent choice for officers, but you have to be building them as battle officers, not covert officers.

I like Shinobi for general officers because it gives them something to do while scouting. I like Rangers for battle officers because they tend to be in the middle of things for Incoming! and I always make them out of good aim troops, so they hand out some accuracy buffs as well.

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 ...

Goumindong wrote:It also breaks active overwatch (if the unit was not disoriented before).

That was a bug which has been fixed. Flashbangs always clear Overwatch, and although no message is displayed, they reset the duration of the Disoriented effect.

Last night, Swarming regional HQ. Took the outer buildings, started clearing out the pods in the middle of the map, and Sloth and his entire command pod just walks up on my right flank. Wut. This was actually about the dumbest thing he could have done as my entire battle line wheeled around and unlo...

Close, but not exactly. On a successful mission, soldiers get a flat amount of xp equal to the number of enemies on the map divided by the number of soldiers on the mission (minimum 3) times a per-class multiplier (average 5.7). They then get +1 for each enemy they kill (or +1.33 with Wet Work). So...

Rocket scatter seems to be using the same values from Long War 1, but the UI isn't displaying the actual scatter yet. It's effected by soldier aim, aim boni on the soldier (not their weapon), the total distance of the shot, if the soldier has both actions available or not, and if they have Fire in t...

It reduces the number of engineers required to manufacture an item. Some of the late game items require 5 or more engineers on your staff to manufacture. In the event that you cannot find that many engineers, or have lost some to combat (it can happen in certain retaliations), you can make up for it...

You're thinking vanilla. LW awards XP to the surviving team based on mission objectives. You don't need to fire a shot to level up. Kills just provide a small bonus to the soldier who scores them. I saw a kill assist in the LW2 code, I thought. Is it inactive? It might be functional, I'm not famili...

Honestly I think they're all good. Even Even More Maps - Suffer! . It's nice to encounter some extremely unvanilla maps. "Council" missions have never seemed like a problem because in the early game you should just stealth run them and get out, and later you have the firepower to punch thr...

You're thinking vanilla. LW awards XP to the surviving team based on mission objectives. You don't need to fire a shot to level up. Kills just provide a small bonus to the soldier who scores them.

I'm just not sure all Sharpshooters would survive to get good. They do get really good, but you have to deal with that awkward phase before Phantom where your Snappers are just crappy Rangers and your DFAs can't ignore cover yet. I think you'd need to rush the AWC and pray for good pistol perks.