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It's 20 turns from the moment you start. It takes 8 turns after you pop the objective to get doom reinforcements. These numbers are from legendary, proof provided in the code below, whoever said 10 is just flapping their mouth. Thanks. I thought about looking for this stuff in the .ini files, but I...

Liberating also kills off a decent chunk of global ADVENT strength, which is nice. While some of the power leaves to nearby territories, some of the power is just removed from ADVENTS global level. Also, the liberation mission itself gives you crap tons of loot. Corpses, supplies, alloys, elerium, y...

The Blacksite isn't timed so you can take as much time to sneak as you want. Once you blow concealment, you have 10 turns till 8-men reinforcements arrive. If you manage to sneak to the back of the map where the vial is located, you should have plenty of time to smash and grab. Trying to fight acro...

On legend I believe you have 10 turns until 8 man reinforcement spam, so fighting all the way from the start would be pretty tight (also I spawned the Archon King in my Blacksite so that strategy was right out). 10 turns?! That's less time than you have to destroy a relay! If it uses the same map a...

Seeing a terrible level one AWC perk like Deadeye... Deadeye is a terrible perk? It's a bit boring, but a flat +10% crit chance is useful on just about anybody. I'd say that the worst perks are the stealth ones. While they can occasionally be useful, for Specialists doing stealth missions or to hel...

I'm more of a "Reload all guns and let all cooldowns recharge, then overwatch for a few turns in case anything heard me earlier" kind of game for HQs myself, not so much the Snipers and Shinobi tactic.

Ah well then, it's "Take your time but hurry it up" then. I can manage that.

So, I've heard things about massive waves of re-inforcements if you take too long in this mission. Throw in 'unknown' for enemy count, and that I can only bring 8 troops max (or 6 if I want to not take forever) and I'm really not sure what to expect here. The amount of time it takes to infiltrate ma...

I suggest you rethink shadowstrike - it applies to abilities like saturation fire, iron curtain, as well as grenadier/technical grenades/rockets if you got biggest booms taking them to 100% critical on that initial explosion....it is easily one of the BEST awc perks. My shadow striking iron curtain...

I think it just needs to be cheaper. It's a really long and expensive project, so I was expecting it to be a 'squad upgrade', rather than just another one-off project. Reduce the project cost and time, and it'd likely feel better.

Adding the words "retrain" and "retraining" so that someone looking for this subject will find this thread. Noobs like me don't know the word "respec". Hah, you did indeed help me find this file! However, it looks like the values for default respec times are out of dat...

Personally, I think it's better to show all the options. IIRC, a soldiers AWC list doesn't show up until they get a class (because it has to know which abilities to ban from the list), so you can't plan based on that. If the only justification is because some abilities are too powerful... well yah, ...

Retraining can be a hell of a thing for how long it takes. Which makes sense if you're retraining your entire tree (which you are). But would it be possible to add an option to retrain only a single skill for a much shorter wait time? I'm not sure the interface can easily support such a thing, but j...

Serial has a 6 turn cooldown. Double-Tap is usable once per turn. With Serial, you'll probably kill lots of fodder or weakened enemies. It's pretty cool. But you'll only do that once every several turns. While you aren't bringing snipers on timed missions too often, it's not uncommon to chain pull m...

Wouldn't surprise me if there's a .ini value for it.

I've said this elsewhere, but I think there is one small change that would help the Technical a lot, particularly the Rocketeer Build. With one exception, talents boost either the rockets or the flamethrower. When you first take Fire in the Hole to improve your Rocket aim, you are improving only a s...

Psi abilities hit chance is calculated similarly to weapon accuracy, actually. Your "aim" is the psi offence start, each ability has an innate bonus (insanity has +30), and the enemy "defense" is their will. So yes, you're in general really inaccurate because of how those number...

Compare this with a grenadier: The AOE is quite comparable in the end (not the early game of course), they also shred, with combat engineer they can destroy cover very well, and in exchange you'll likely get 5, (and often you'll have a specialist anyways, so sometimes seven). And yes, I'd say Javel...

JulianSkies wrote:Remember that is a minimum that applies to everyone, including aliens.

Ah, might be a bit less tempting then. I just wanted a way to make Shotgun overwatch a bit more tempting.

Hidden Reserves is a really hit or miss one. If you get it early on, you can significantly delay building a power coil, and get yourself an early Comms Station or Proving Grounds (I think AWC + GTS is the best use of your starting power). It can also buy you a bit more time before you have to start ...

A lot of comments on the weapons, which I agree are fine. I'm not a huge fan of the Boltcaster, but I do make use of it. In Vanilla, it was the weapon of choice for Psi Ops, simply because they were only ever going to shoot when on Overwatch. However, I'm not so sure about Long War. The Boltcaster n...

Just a heads-up for anyone who this is bothering - particularly those who don't want to have to use a PCS slot for the patch - XcomLW_SoldierSkills.ini contains this line: REQUIRED_TO_HIT_FOR_OVERWATCH=1 ; any to-hit chance below this won't trigger overwatch Assuming that it works as advertised, ch...

On the Workshop, you can find lesser versions of many of the aspects of Long War in Pavonis Workshop (with names like the Long War Perk Pack). They're separate from the actual Long War mod, and you can add them individually. However, I don't think they're nearly as good as the final versions in the ...

Possible change to Covering Fire to make it more useful. Make it act like a reactive Suppression. The idea of Suppression is that you're firing at an enemy to give them few opportunities to act. Covering Fire is similar, it shoots at just the right time to disrupt your enemies. Whether or not it hit...

So, how're the Rulers in Long War 2? Getting three suits of armor for such a large number of soldiers seems a high price to pay for having a Ruler show up randomly on a stealth mission, or on an already difficult timed mission where you brought a small squad. They have a lot more potential to screw ...

Not enough love for Venom Rounds. On anything not immune to poison, you're not only guaranteed to get +2 poison damage (one from the bonus damage, and at least one DoT proc before they act), poison is a fairly good status effect. Besides limiting mobility and aim, it also locks down most special abi...