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Sounding like I could get down to one Gunner build: Gunner Grazing Fire - Shredder - Demolition - Chain Shot - Cool Under Pressure - Traverse Fire - Rupture Even the area build would likely change at most 2 perks, but I'm wondering if maybe it should just take Iron Curtain considering the lessening ...

And it also bothers me when Mutons get free movement actions when being shot at ( though this can be abused, it's not the point, but leads to another negative ). Nothing like seeing a Muton go from 2 screens away to right in your face after a few rounds of pot shots. I'm surprised the Sectoids don'...

Its my understanding that this particular mission type actually wont end or fail if the timer runs out, the devs in an interview described that its actually a "SOFT" timer. Instead of the mission straight up failing an overwhelming force of enemies will spawn in dropships instead(hence th...

After watching xwynn's smash and grab mission, I have little hopes that this makes the game any less stealth oriented. He did just fine with 2 shinobi grabbing 2/3 caches, and I have a hard time imagining a non-stealthed 5-6 man team being able to shoot down 15 mobs and grab containers and get out ...

Once i started to aim for a single Power-Relay (on Coils) strategy & putting Shadow-Chamber on the other. Digging through the LW2 INI files, the highest power consumptions in LW2 are for the upgraded Shadow Chamber (needs 14) and the max upgraded Laborartory (needs 9). so they should be on the ...

I can't help but feel that a great deal of issues some players are having in LW2 are being attributed to "intended gameplay" that is not apparent to the player. "learning what to use" or "how to play" is fundamentally different than "who do you use" and "...

I've just started a Legendary campaign and I find a lot of the discussion on this forum shows the balance of LW2 at that difficulty needs tuning and even some changes. I can see the split into 1-3 troop stealth missions and 8-12 major assaults. I've been sending out 5-6 soldiers on early missions wi...

I'm a ways away from having Psi, but I'm following this topic with interest. There's a lot of stuff hard to balance in LW2 and we should expect things to change quite a bit. Until such time, for those who want to fiddle, there's either INI edits or mods. Here's 3 mods that could make things differen...

And what about gunners with the combative perk. Do you counter each other till someone fails their roll? LOL we could make the arena then. I suspect the fighting stops after one exchange of melee attacks in both cases. Never took it on gunners though, Center Mass all the way, baby! Nah, go go Grazi...

I'm really really trying to hold down my number of builds. It's currently 18 for the initial 8 soldier classes and that's crazy. Will try to cut it to 17 or 16. Having too many different builds is tactically confusing, even with squad composition to make sure there's no important tactical tool misse...

Commander's Choice is indeed doing so. The AWC picks from perks not available to the class the character rolled. They are not reselected if you change the soldier's class. Commander's Choice was recently updated to address this. It now works by promoting Rookies in the Armory to a specific class an...

What's the earliest a UFO showed up on Legendary, by time or by response to something done? If it goes to an Avenger Defence Mission, when's the latest you can edit the troops loadout?

Also playing on Veteran in July -- completed vanilla commander ironman without too much trouble -- and getting my ass handed to me in these missions. I've had three missions this month, troop column, network tower, and a supply raid. I've lost 4-5 troops on every mission, but managed to complete th...

There's also another mod to help with LOS issues, especially as what Gotcha reports seems to have some flaws, perhaps due to the underlying sighting mechanics. It's the Steam Workshop mod LOS Preview Ability . LOS Preview Ability current doesn't provide an icon on the VIP's toolbar, but switch to th...

nightwyrm wrote:I believe that a pod activates during Player's turn will just do their normal scamper to cover and not fire at you regardless of their alert status.

Not sure, but I think the Yellow Alert pods will still have some members either shoot or go overwatch after diving for cover.

Another one to work over! :) Specialist Reaction Cool Under Pressure - Revival Protocol - Suppression - Failsafe - Sentinel - Killzone - Full Override Specialist Medic Medical Protocol - Revival Protocol - Field Medic - Failsafe - Savior - Scanning Protocol - Restoration The first one emphasizes the...

I was reading the description for skullmining and it seemed to infer that you can get a facility lead from skullmining. I haven't seen a facility lead anywhere else in the game. Is this the only way to get those? Haven't gotten that far yet, but AFAIK, like other leads, you can get them as mission ...

I was really trying to hold Gunners to 1 build. Oh well, I still have 1 build for Rangers. And now 18 total.... So, 3 builds for Gunners. Critiques and skill substitution suggestions are invited. Maybe I could get by with only two builds? Gunner Hail Grazing Fire - Hail of Bullets - Demolition - Cha...

Balor wrote:I think I'm still a little sleep deprived with my newborn baby girl.

Congratulations!

It's like the death of game design, feature creep, where you're wanting to add so much to your game to make it "awesome" that you either never end up releasing, release in a poor balanced / buggy state, or it changes the base game so invariably that it's not enjoyable anymore. I think tha...

It comes down to XCOM becomes stronger over a game. Paralleling this ADVENT gets stronger too, with more advanced and threatening troops and aliens and eventually Dark Events. It's trying to maintain the balance between XCOM and ADVENT and give the player a challenge. However, it's becoming apparent...

I was referring more to the mid-game. I have had good success with 5 man squads in the early game where you can one or two shot most enemies. When you can't, you need to either go really small or really big. Have you gotten the GTS Tactics perks that reduce the infiltration times for 6-7 soldiers a...

Cheers for the replies guys, I didn't know GTS was ten days on legend. I think I'm pretty much going to require a total rethink because ten days for a whole roster is definitely not going to work as I was stretched thin with a five day training time. I might try just chain training shinobi and lett...

Haven't gotten to SPARKs yet in the campaign since getting Shen's Last Gift DLC, but I think I'll follow the overwatch build and employment. ...once you can path Wrecking Ball through most of the enemy pod's covers.... Though once I read the Wrecking Ball description, this is how I imagined a SPARK....

I'm starting to find that sending 4-6 man squads to missions to be unfeasible. You either send 2-3 men to sneak to the objective, or you're doing 8-10 men huge firefights. 4-6 men squads are too big to stealth successfully but not enough firepower to kill things quickly. I'm just starting my curren...