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I also forgot a decent strategy is to have a sniper for this kind of mission since he can squad sight the array with someone spotting for him. This is particularly nice for psi emitters in avenger defense or the invasion missions. The arrays take are robotic and take the bonus damage from blue scree...

I'm beginning to like having a fairly broad base of all classes, and multiples of each working on different trees. I really enjoy the variety and finding different ways to succeed. Right now my setup is 1) 1 sharp 1 shinobi 1 assault 1 gun 1 spec 1 gren - a half/half melee/ranged dps team, with a de...

My gunner just received tactical sense and fortify as her defensive higher up perks o.O Guess I'm going to focus her perks on area suppression...she should be virtually invulnerable to gunfire with an aid protocol on. Light cover (25) + aid protocol (40) + tact sense (20) + fortify (20) = 105 defense.

I would LOVE to see a video of what a Swarming Supply Raid looks like. So we know how much to prepare. Also, don't grenadiers have a finite number of grenades. I've got to imagine that once you run out, you're pretty much screwed. On rookie at 0% at advent level 1 (swarming), I faced 38 aliens (thr...

You have so many high ranking soldiers you can afford to put rapid reaction rangers in havens? At what point in the game is this?

If you have Rapid fire on any of the two, it is guaranteed actually.

No, I've had one or both rapid fires miss, at least in vanilla. Same with chain shot. Those minus aim penalties seem to actually affect your 100% to hit the relay.

Is it intentional or bug that you don't get corpses from a sabotage statue mission? The objectives are to kill everything and we don't evac, so I would have thought we do keep corpses from that sort of mission.

oh ok, thank you for the info! Then i have a real Problem, if you say, that normally there should be corpses after the Sabotage Mission.. but after this mission i got an error.. the video from the landing skyranger isn`t loading and then i only see the ground from the missionbase.. and i have to en...

Is it random in LW2? I know in vanilla it was but most regions seem very well connected in LW2 no matter which campaign I load up.

yes i`m understanding this.. but if you have this specific sabatoage an Advent statue.. you have no Mission timer and you do not have to call the skyranger by yourself.. or you don`t have to go to an evacuation Zone... it`s the same Mission as the vanilla/orignal gatecrasher Mission.. if this is co...

isn't the diagonal movement just calculated using your movement as a circle though? there might be certain artifacts to the circle shape obviously, but that should be pretty minor, so I would assume the diagonal movement is at least comparable to the straight movement. Not sure what you mean by &qu...

Controlling a mech reveals you, stunning it doesn't

20 hp sounds right, it's not bad luck. And yes they go up to 30 hp I've seen later in the game. As you get better weapons they are a joke, and as the guy above me said, you can double barrel from a ranger at max range (you are guaranteed to hit arrays) for quite a bit of damage even at low levels.

But sentinel and rapid reaction are stronger than guardian (Guardian increases expected DPS by 2 times at 100% hit rate) and the ability to get cover fire, and ever vigilant, and cool under pressure makes OW builds super strong. I feel like you have to build around other skills that forces enemy mo...

I read in the upcoming 1.1 notes that bradford will whine less about you having low troop count (because you sent 3 squads of men out), but can you guys make him whine less about "no new incoming resources" so often? I quite deliberately have no rebels on supply in the early game and it's ...

Oh wow the first one in the chain doesn't have a title? I did not know that. I just stumble along because I do any missions that are reasonably easy, and those first ones in the chain are easier than hte later ones.

Succcessful hacks do not break concealment

Like Gunner, Specialist, Ranger going heavy on the reaction fire perks? I'm trying to see the silver lining but I find that if you are aiming for the late game when the enemy gets really crazy hp units, you don't want to be relying on reaction shots on those. I could maybe see a use for a gunner tha...

If you fail the hack you break concealment

Drs. are engineers too

Overwatch isn't nearly as useful as it was in vanilla due to AI tweaks, but you could argue that they somewhat buffed it with the grazing band. At the end of the day overwatching is free shots on patrols you haven't activated yet, and they did add specific moves (roust, flush) to force enemies to mo...

hey take forever though . :P So this is a known bug? Is what a bug? I don't see any bugs. Maybe you just got unlucky with not getting missions that reward scientists. There's no guarantee of such missions. Besides, we recently discussed that everyone should research basic research at least once in ...

Just fyi there is a perk that does something similar for offensive grenades but it's learned later and it forces you to use a grenade as a first action.

I"m glad I asked the original question and now I feel like we've informed everyone that it's stupid not to do basic research at least once some time early in the game.

I'm talking about where you can target a barrel without seeing the pod that's behind it. It's something we've all exploited during vanilla, but I wonder if it's something that LW2 can fix. It seems like LW2 tries to address many exploits (like enemies pathing into you not attacking, etc etc etc) and...