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Look for missions that offer 'Intel Package' as a reward- the Package can be a Facility Lead that you need to find the other sites. Also, pay attention to the progress messages. They may occasionally (accidentally?) announce where the progress is coming from, giving you an idea of which regions you ...

Do you have the DLC installed? If yes, then it is active. The only way for it to not be active is if you opted not to install it in Steam. If you didn't check the box for it when starting the campaign, that just means it skips the narrative content and unleashes it on you from Day 1.

Assaults, especially stungun assaults, are fine. You want plenty of recharge/cooldown based resources available (i.e. not expendable/one-shots like grenades) because of the sheer number of enemies on the field. Stungun-spec assaults and their ability to disorient opponents even on a miss is pretty h...

I am inclined to agree. ADVENT strength was rising to 4-5 in East Africa, so I moved all of my personnel there into hiding under the impression that it might get things under control again. It has only continued to rise since then. Now, I can attribute at least some of this to the fact that I libera...

I suspect it's possible to get 0 scatter, because when I was looking at the underlying code in the ini files (I haven't inspected the actual rocket .u/.uc unrealscript files yet) it referenced making rolls. How many rolls? 4. You know what the perk did? Reduce the number of rolls by 2. What I think ...

What buff did he get on higher difficulties? I usually take 1 incendiary grenade to lock him down. Even on Rookie I think he does about 8 damage per hit and has 18-20 HP or something along those lines, nevermind armour and the buffs he confers to all ADVENT in range (he's basically an Officer, but ...

Thinking on this some more, I feel like there would need to be an added adjustment; increase native dodge/defense, and incur dodge/defense penalties for heavier armour. Otherwise, you're going to have weak soldiers running around and getting KO'd (and probably outright killed, with LW2 bleedout mech...

Chances are if you're using an old ability icon mod, it's bugged. This isn't LW2's fault (or shouldn't be).

The only ability icon colour mod that works right now (to my knowledge) is infectedm's Cost Based Ability Colors.

It's Basic, at first. Once you complete the PG Project for, let's say, Extended Magazines, then you unlock the Advanced Extended Magazines project which requires 3 Adv. Ext. Mags, allows you to build more of them, and in turn unlocks the Elite Extended Magazines project once completed. Basically, ke...

I'm not entirely convinced. For one, this has a huge impact on stealth ops, which LW2 has gone to fairly long lengths to permit by stripping out various bits of AI pathing bullshit, and which already require a greater degree of planning and patience than most missions. Now you're telling me that, af...

Manifest, you aren't telling me anything I already don't know. It just seemed that for what it does it didn't need to end my turn. It functionally ends your turn anyway for any sharpshooter- and it would definitely be overpowered for any non-sniper if it didn't. I mean, I could have some of my troo...

I believe JL has stated before that weapon mods only apply to the weapon they're equipped on, so rockets would not benefit from mods installed on your primary weapon.

Pretty much. They locked out a bunch of character customization options, presumably because they expected you to burn through rookies fast and didn't want you to spend hours customizing them only for them to die on their first mission. And then they added the character pool function anyway which kin...

It's a special ability of the blue Sentry/Sentinel troopers. Others like the dark-green Gunners, Scouts, regular Officers, etc. etc. won't do this.

Tac Vests are +4HP/+1ARM. As far as pure health goes, they're one of the best defenses, though they don't offer the status resistance of hazmat vests (3HP, fire/acid/poison resist) or other utility defenses. Keep in mind that even 5-6 ARM is noselling 90% of a Viper plasma blast and more or less com...

Devon's right; with the armour strength of things like late-game Tactical Vests made from Mutons and so on and so forth, this... yeah, armour-scaling would get out of hand fast . Top it off with things like Formidable and you could easily get troops up to 6-7 armour, which is reserved for only the t...

You can absolutely get Troop Movements and Supply Raids on lower-strength regions, but the problem can be that you may not have enough intel-gathering ability there. I was able to intercept several troop movements into western europe to keep it hovering around strength 3-4 for a while. The only plac...

Also lets hope that UFO wont find me now since i dont have much in terms of troops in the avenger to defend it It's not guaranteed, at least-- in vanilla, the first UFO they send after you is all but guaranteed to catch you no matter what kind of crazy moves Bradford pulls. In LW2 I managed to evad...

- helpful to have a medical specialist since the fight is drawn out and haywiring a drone is a big tempo swing If in doubt, take two. Last thing you need is a squadwipe because your medtech got floored. First HQ assault I got flanked by a trio of Vipers and things got ugly. - helpful to have one or...

You need to use something like TextPad or Notepad++ due to the way the ini files were made for LW2.

I don't know about the burn chances, but you should be able to tweak the damage ranges in XComGameData_WeaponData.ini, just look for;
Line 737.

Skulljacking is not required.

You need to keep your eyes open for any "Find a Lead" missions and prioritize those when they appear.

Intentional, AFAIK. Faceless are intentionally hidden from the Activity tracker (because, you know, they're all disguised) and certain missions are set up as traps.

Like Amineri pointed out, to apply the Stun the drone needs to get really next to you. Thus if it applies a 1 turn stun, chances are that it won't survive another turn to continue stunning the soldier. The 2 turn stun is fine, you not only lose the soldier for that duration, but will also have to t...

Because a complacent and compliant populace is easier to control and renders more useful Avatar Juice than a resisting, violent one. The idea is cute and all but it's super redundant. There's no role it does that other units don't already do. Also keep in mind that it would probably be a child of th...