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Actually, that reminds me - why are soldiers' main abilities hidden? Seems like those should definitely be revealed both in LW2 and the Perk Pack. It would have saved me a lot of UFOPedia checks. Showing those are under the control of an option. Look under Options - Abilities for View Locked Perks ...

Specialist is fine, I pick killzone. I just wonder about the damn Bugs, err, Chryssalids. How much Scanning Protocol would help against them. Will have it on my Specialist Medics anyhoo, who'd I'd want on a mission going up against the Bugs. Any other enemy hide like them? I remember you were askin...

From a post about Rifle Suppression in LW2 that wandered into Gunner territory. http://www.pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=24635 I remember you were asking about Iron Curtain on Gunner; try not to unless you get a good AWC perk. Demolition is actually pretty good; in LW2 it's ...

I send a single shinobi and just run the edge of the map and wait for the opportunity to make a two-move dash with the vip. Having to worry about more non-concealed friendlies is horrid, even if the xp min-maxer in me sobs a bit. Two or three shinobis would obviously be ideal, as you say, lotsa fla...

This is the mission where the VIP and all of the squad without the Phantom perk start revealed. Those with the Phantom perk are concealed. 12 turns to get to a fixed evac. EDIT: Discussion back and forth on this mission. Likely better with just one or maybe two Shinobi. Risky but can top up squad to...

I agree with the original post, although I've not personally unlocked Psi Ops. One thing I would like. Whenever a mission is discovered or accessed to confirm the troops for it, or later when launching the mission, there's no date and time on the screen, unlike every other strategic view. I don't kn...

What remaining choices? I'm not understanding something. The perk choices for the ranks after picking or skipping Suppression for Specialists (Cpl and up) and Technicals (SSgt and up). For example, for a balanced Specialist and a primary oriented Technical, I would think of going with these. Specia...

I have a question. Those of you saying the game is heavily stealthed based, do you have the extra map packs installed? No map packs installed. LW2 has barely balanced timers of certain missions against the larger LW2 stock maps. I keep giving this example because it was at the limit and I was damn ...

I'm wondering if somehow the changes to Flamethrower in 1.1 affected other cone attacks like Trench Gun. Those changes allowed Flamethrower to wrap around cover, but that also effectively cut its range by 1. This required increasing its range by 1 to get back the same effective range it hand in 1.0...

Thanks Napal292! I think I will try that out. You may have saved LW2 for me. And thanks for the other responses, I'm glad other people are enjoying the stealth mechanic, I just did not find it satisfying after the first couple stealth runs. And it sounds like there's more fighting in the later game...

Sines wrote:Serial has a 6 turn cooldown. Double-Tap is usable once per turn.

Haven't gotten a Sharpshooter to MSgt, but in LW2's XComLW_SoldierSkills.ini, it say Double Tap has a cooldown of 2 turns, which means it's usable every other turn. Still with enough Aim it's a 50% boost to damage output.

umie214 wrote:hey! people keep telling me I killed a rookie whenever i ask this, what's the meme here lol?

[GlaDOS] Murderer.

I recommend suppression for technicals specifically if you use them for long missions, like 0% supply raids or HQ. You aren't getting multiple rockets anytime soon and being able to suppress gives them longevity. I imagine similarly you'd recommend they take Shredder too, as that gives them a stron...

For the classes that get Formidable as a soldier skill (as opposed to the others who might get it as a AWC skill), is the point of armour and 66% protection from explosions ever worth the trade off of the skills not taken? Assault: Extra Conditioning or Aggression Grenadier: Heavy Ordnance or Protec...

This mod might not be exactly what you're after but after awhile anyone can build up a decent hack skill. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=639884488&searchtext=hack+plus This mod does that for Hacking and similar improvement for other stats. https://steamcommunity.com/share...

There's also a couple of timer mods you could look at too. I think only one or the other should be used, unless you use the first to reduce the timers when using the second. An Easier War: Timers Tested Increases mission timers at all difficulty levels to their Rookie level value, 4 more turns than ...

Having tried to use it again, in what I thought was the perfect circumstances, I found it deeply underwhelming. The cone told me it was going to hit 3 guys, and despite Perfect Information informing me that it had a 100% chance to hit, 0% crit, 10% dodge, it totally ignored the back two (who were b...

After reading about trihero's 0% Supply Raid and the discussion about it here: http://www.pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=24415&start=25#p32132 I'm seeing Gunners in a better light. Not a cure-all, but more important than I thought. Their others skills are good, but only t...

For me i run my game with "not created equally" and "hudden potential" maxed out. The stats i get determine my skill path. If i get a gunner with boss aim skills you bet your ass im giving him shredder with as many double/tripple shots i can. [These are invaluable vs sectopods a...

Thanks!

I've looked for a mod to do this and I've found nothing. Is there any easy way to select a game's starting zone? Besides by repeated starting new games and exiting out if they aren't the zone wanted.

Kizaray wrote:I have one sniper with "lethal" as his tier 3 offensive perk and if im remembering correctly isnt that one of his tier 8 class perks? If so i think its possible.

Lethal is an Assault skill in LW2 at Master Sergeant rank. No other LW2 soldier class has it.

Ok, I have some insights having beaten my first 0% 10 man supply raid on legendary (it was April when it hit, forgot exactly the date). I will admit straight up I did save scum, but I'm ok with it for learning purposes and only reloaded when I made a stupid pull or whatnot, I did not micro-save scu...

I think it's crazy that a soldier class would need 3 builds. It increases the complexity of managing the solider and squads. Lots of pressure to do with Grenadiers and Technicals, but at least with them 1 or 2 of the builds would be rare variants. Trying to hold to 2 builds with Specialists. I can s...

GavinRuneblade wrote:Remember how small and scrawny sectoids used to be....

Then they conquered Earth and discovered what Charles Atlas could do for them....