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You have to train them in order. Training an offesive perk doesn't have any effect on defensive perks.

It's also intentional that they are hidden as unlike the perk trees they are random and you never know what's waiting.

Burning is a very powerful debuff in LW2. Aside from the damage over time it disables all actions. The AI reacts to it by running back and forth, which i highly exploitable via overwatch. Try starting a fight by ambushing a whole pod with the flamer, you basically win as soon as you confirm the abil...

When I ran the tower last I was able to get four turns in without any reinforcements. They started dropping what seemed like three turns after I was spotted, and after hacking the obective and taking out the stunned groups no additional forces appeared on the sixth turn after breaking concealment. I...

Everything uses engineers other than the AWC and Psi Lab. The game also seems to give out engineers like Halloween candy, so the workshop may just be one of those campaign insurance things.

Open with a rocket on the command pod, freeze the general with the frost bomb. Drop a couple of grenades on him, light him on fire, holo-target him, then hammer him with small arms. Worked for me.

There's no such thing as "avoiding" missions. They happen wether you know about them or not. You want intel on the enemy so you can at least see if it's something you should get involved with. You don't have to run a mission just because you detected it.

Just wait until ADVENT gets upset with you. You'll wish you could take a break from big battles and do some guerrilla ops again.

I don't see the point in sending a squad to VIP extractions. A Shinobi at 200% is literally all you ever need. Send a fast one in naked and approach the evac zone from one of the map edges, never the line of play from deployment. All you have to do is get the VIP within a yellow move of one tile of ...

I don't even try to max out troop equipment. I have one "well rounded" squad which actually rarely goes in because specialists seem so much better. The second squad, the Devils, is all Grenadiers and Technicals. They usually borrow a Shinobi when they deploy. They are for missions where st...

Technically armor doesn't make you more healthy, it makes you take less damage. Wound time is based on the percentage of HP missing. If yoy have three HP because you don't have armor and take two damage you are severely injured. If you have 10 HP because you're wearing armor and take two damage it's...

So, I know that on all non-Legendary difficulties in Vanilla, the game would give you secret bonuses to hit the more you missed. According to the wiki, that IS present in Long War on Rookie. I'm playing on Veteran, and it still feels like I'm hitting more than I'm supposed to. Perhaps it's just the...

That's a fair point.

Vanilla was never a simulation. Sorry...that was supposed to be STRATEGY game, not simulation. No, you used the right word, I mean that while the game gives the impression of simulating events, it's really just picking from weighted random options preset for different situations. The AVATAR Project...

I think the key difference is that totalitarian regimes on present day Earth have to brainwash people into thinking that living there is a good idea, and they have to keep people from leaving. ADVENT is actually the best place on Earth. It's the only civilization left. You can scrounge around in the...

I'm not actually on the dev team, but Firaxis did catch flak for the cheating AI. That and many elements of the game being on rails with only the illusion that they were simulations were seen as the game's weak points, but they crafted it for a specific play experience. It was known that the game d...

No scatter is listed. I've lost cover that my own guys were using a good 4-5 squares out of the blast area. I first discovered it when I tried to stun some troopers camping the evac zone on a building and it leveled the building. Firebrand moved over to my squad, too, so it was all good.

ADVENT troopers. Obey or die. If they shoot you, you were a terrorist. Bradford says it himself that Stun Lancers were peacekeepers in the early days, but they don't bother anymore. They have no reason to care. The remaining human population is dependant on them, and they're melting them all down in...

This is vanilla behavior removed in LW2 wherever we found it. Unfortunately, we missed a spot (blame us playtesters). That should be fixed in patch 1.1. Thank you for the response, explanation, AND the fix. Does this also fix the issue with the AI knowing where you are in the fog of war? In the fir...

Terrain removal is what you want. Sapper, Demolition, Concussion Rockets. Out of cover Rangers tear things up. You also need their volume of fire against MECs and Berserkers. There's also Walk Fire, Hail of Bullets, Iron Curtian, the accuracy booster and auto-hit abilities. The thing you don't want ...

ADVENT has scanners, drones, and turrets everywhere. Everything is military, there is no "civilian" law enforcement.

They don't need cops, they just air drop soldiers, and they don't have any civilian authority to answer to.

Send them on VIP extracts. Treat them like the VIPs, just stay out of sight and win the mission, free XP.

Even still, Intel gets you easy missions which are worth more than anything at the start.

200% I believe.

125% and 150% should be the force reductions and evac bonus.

Supply is also generated piece by piece over time, not as a lump sum at the end of the month. I think this is the concept that I wasn't grasping myself. So that milestone "Monthly Supply Drop" in the queue now just gives a summary? Yeah, it's how much you would get if nothing changed for ...

The game can't spawn the Lost Towers mission in an ongoing campaign, so if you add it mid way, or disable the mission when starting the campaign, you don't have to beat the mission to unlock the tech like you normally do.