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The LOS bugs and the bugs that let Viper Spit and Rockets go through solid walls (like the cliffs you have in outdoor maps, even if your soldier isn't even close to the edge) are just unbearable in Ironman. Melee attacks appear to go through wall often as well. I've been able to Fleche with my Shin...

What is the ETA on this patch. Honestly this AWC perks driving me nuts. I cannot get proper AWC on certain classes. [ GlaDOS ] Murderer. [ /GlaDOS ] You can patch those issues yourself right now by following the instructions in these links. http://www.pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1...

My views are based upon Legendary in my play and watching others' videos. May be very different on other difficulties. Some research needs a minimum of Scientists on staff; example, you need 1 Scientist to research Laser Weapons. Some Proving Grounds projects need a minimum of Engineers on staff. Th...

Skeazix wrote:btw where can I see a person's defense stat? It's not listed when you look at a soldier.

It's on the view soldier list at the far right near the little shield.

Note a workshop also gives you the +7 power (+8 in total). So putting the Workshop on a Power Coil has it produce 7 more power. Interesting, but I think the Workshop is best served to double up two Engineers by being on the 2nd row centre spot, as being deeper means excavating more before building ...

Arcalane wrote:There's a mod for that: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =731607867

Wow!

"Can be configured to give high/low cover to other enemy types."

I thought of Mutons and Andromedons, dead and alive. But it could quickly become very silly, so no. Turrets are sufficient.

Ohhhh, I get what happened, then. I didn't use the Commander's Choice mod, actually. This character was in my first batch of characters and the person she's named after wanted to be a grenadier, so I used Console Commands to swap her class to Grenadier and turn my initial Grenadier into a Sniper to...

With all this talk of adjusting this, modding that, and tuning the other thing, do you get the feeling that Long War 2, even on Legendary, is just a bit too...light hearted and easy? There's your soldiers, going out on mission after mission with a song in their heart and barely any break in moral ex...

As I've learned more things here, I decided to restart my Legendary campaign twice. Second time I had the starting zone in Western North America. The third and most recent time I restarted, I use the mod Set HQ Location to force my initial zone to be Western North America. What I notice is the first...

I think you must have an older version of Commander's Choice installed and used it to change your soldier to Grenadier as a Squaddie. That and editting the INI file to remove the restriction against the Grenadier getting its own perk as an AWC perk are the only two ways I know of that can lead to ha...

AFAIK, you can adjust the Campaign and Long War 2 options and though the changes won't be retroactive (except for Not Created Equally), they will change things going forward. You can turn on Red Fog now.

One way to use Assaults and Shinobi is as battle line flank ends. Be sure your rear area is scouted out and fall back the troops out of contact. Then the enemy come forward, you get another Overwatch slaughter. After once or twice, it can be much safer to send in the close combat troops, as they can...

My first rendezvous was in a zone with 6 resistance members. After I remembered that, looking at the 4 who came out with me, I thought "Damn, it's going to be 2 Faceless." But there was only 1.

Sometimes, resistance members don't show up on a rendezvous. Don't why.

In LW2, Power Relays are only the 3rd best choice for a Power Coil space. Coils provide 7 power if a Power Relay is built on them. However, a coil provides all the power needed by any other room on top of them. In LW, an upgraded Shadow Chamber needs 14 power. A fully upgraded Laboratory needs 9 pow...

Been thinking things over some more. I'm wondering about two power choices in my Ranger build, the ones at LCpl and GSgt. Ranger Walk Fire / Covering Fire - Locked On - Cool Under Pressure - Grazing Fire - Ever Vigilant - Rapid Fire / Rapid Reaction - Rupture I think Covering Fire may not be worth i...

I'm still learning a lot about LW2. Had played XCOM 2 on Legendary but not to the finish. Decided to play LW2 Legendary non-Ironman because the game changes too much when the difficulty shifts and I don't want to learn bad habits. I do want to be able to back up a bit in both strategy and tactics if...

I just wish some of these stories included the difficulty level and whether there were any significant mods added in. Some of the tech sounds like stuff you wouldn't have until late in the game, while the threats were ones that would come much earlier.

There is really only one ranger build worth considering. Covering Fire - Pump Action - Cool Under Pressure - Fortify - Ever Vigilant - Rapid Reaction - Combat Fitness My build for the Ranger as a fast flanking overwatch demon. Ranger Covering Fire - Locked On - Cool Under Pressure - Grazing Fire - ...

Replace the Concussion Rocket with a Shredder Rocket. Sounds like a good idea.

In the first months of a campaign, you're busy building up everything: troops, resistance havens, Avenger, research, and Engineering and Science staff. Winning the missions is vital to advancing all of these. 3-troop squads maxes out regular experience. Running them as stealth helps avoid injuries a...

And imagine that first pod having a single real tough target, like a Sectopod or worse. Set up others on overwatch to take out the trash and use Shadowstrike on the Big Bad, preferably Rupture from a Ranger or Gunner or someone with it as an AWC perk. Nice if they had Shredder too. Rupture is an au...

I'll then have 2 builds for Gunners, trying to go with AWC perks to decide who gets to be the Shredder builds. Gunner Hail Grazing Fire - Hail of Bullets - Demolition - Chain Shot - Cool Under Pressure - Saturation Fire - Rupture Gunner Shredder Grazing Fire - Shredder - Iron Curtain - Chain Shot -...

To eventually move away from so much stealth, I run some resource mods to pay for the fighting. To handled Infiltration and Timers, I run the mods A Better War: Infiltration and True Concealment for LW2. ABW:I shifts infiltration to make the early game sweet spot at 6 troops instead of 5, and going ...

You know how you drop in a Squaddie as Haven Advisor after coming back from Gatecrasher, not expecting them to find anything and not having to worry about facing the Faceless for a while, until you've got a good soldier in there. Legendary campaign. Resistance Comms and expanded to two zones and off...

In light of what leudaimon and trihero say, I will cut it back to two builds, the Scout and the Blade. Shinobi Scout Ghostwalker - Shadowstep - Covert - Shadowstrike - Conceal - Tactical Sense / Tradecraft - Reaper / Rapid Fire Shinobi Blade Cutthroat - Shadowstep - Blademaster - Bladestorm - Coup d...