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I would never take Rupture on an OW build since they usually want to OW with their last action so at most they take one normal shot if they don't move, but not a special one. The other two however can both make sense. Combat Fitness is an overall boost to your soldier. The mobility can be particular...

I'm also fairly optimistic and the fact that JL still have nothing to say several weeks after WOTC was first announced smells of NDA to me. "Nothing to say" says a lot ;) That being said, none of the new features are mutually exclusive from LW2 but most of them will require significant cha...

It's actually 3 *rounds*, not 3 actions. No, stefan3iii is right, it's 3 actions which means on the second turn the enemy will get only 1 action. Sometimes they will only move (often if they are flanked) and won't shoot but they still get an action point and for some enemies it's enough to be dange...

Much like Skyro i use all 3 options depending on the build. I use mostly 3 different assault builds, i have tried some slight variations but those i tend to prefer are : Burst damage build Electroshock/Lightning Reflexes│Trench Gun│Killer Instinct│Extra Conditioning│Rapid Fire│Untouchable│Street Swe...

XComLW_Toolbox.ini Change any of those values to modify the min/max stats for NCE. ;These are the max allowed deltas for each stat type +STAT_CAPS=(Stat=eStat_Offense, Min=-10, Max=10) +STAT_CAPS=(Stat=eStat_Defense, Min=-10, Max=10) +STAT_CAPS=(Stat=eStat_Dodge, Min=-15, Max=15) +STAT_CAPS=(Stat=e...

This might very well be an old Vanilla bug that resurfaced (i remember something similar from early versions). In a recent stealth mission i had the opportunity to hack a lamp for the disguised signals reward so i called the evac and then regained concealment with my specialist. From that moment the...

2) High-infiltrate with 4-6 men. Then it is a regular Guerilla Op without a timer. Not much different from regular missions. What's the fun? No timer = extremely different from a regular G. Op. 4) Only attempt a few of them when they have a good infiltration timer which is what i did in this run. I...

I don't know, i've had a shinobi Bladestorm a Muton exactly once in this campaign and he wasn't countered but i think he was just revealed by the Muton's movement so maybe the Muton was surprised and that's why he didn't counter :? I agree they shouldn't be able to counter much like you don't have a...

I took it on exactly 2 full scout shinobis but that's only because full scout shinobis reach their maximum efficiency at Sgt level withCcovert and everything above is just filler perks (Tradecraft is somewhat useful). I wasn't excited to reach MSgt with either of those. EDIT : Now that i think anout...

The real queen bitch is in Counterintelligence Sweep, which makes almost every mission slip by you for a fuckin' month. Don't ever let that one happen or it really is game over. That will mostly hurt you on the small havens trying to do Intel job and only lasts a bit more than 2 weeks. Also it does...

I'm not yet at the late game, but I'll try to make this happen. Especially with the UFO mission you mentioned and haven't seen one yet through my 4 campaigns (just Veteran ones). Sounds like fun :-) Something that's good to know. If you can complete the liberation chain up to the Network Tower miss...

Hey guys, Can someone explain to me how I can produce supply missions with a decent time frame to infiltrate? What do you mean by "supply missions"? Are you talking about Supply Train raids where you try to intercept moving ADVENT troops? Those are supposed to be hard to detect so it's no...

For having used an Advent Rocketeer myself (Psi Toopers are fun) i can tell you that their rocket seem to be 100% accurate. At least the UI doesn't show any scatter for them and the rocket landed exactly where i aimed after moving. That being said, their rocket is only 3×3 tiles (the size of a basic...

DerAva wrote:By Default that first shot should be completely free and you still have two full actions after it.

The only case where this is true and you get 2 actions back after taking a HnR shot as your first action is when it combos with Light em up thanks to the AWC.

OK, i just found it in the patch notes for 1.3 - Fix a bug causing dark events to sometimes activate before the activity they are attached to expires. 2257 So it looks like it's not the exact same issue. From the wording this bug would have caused the DE to be completed while the mission was under i...

There was a bug in previous versions that caused DE counters to fail if the mission was completed extremely close to the expiration of the DE timer but as far as i know it was fixed for 1.3 or 1.4. This is definitely not the intended behavior. Is your version of LW2 up to date (1.4)? It might also b...

Protect Research (the activity that gives facility leads) isn't really easy to detect with a reasonable amount of time remaining This! I did some calculations and posted very rough estimates some time ago but no longer have the number. The bottom point is you'll nearly never detect them with more t...

What is the reason to have Troop Columns reduce alert/strength only in 50% of the successful missions? Keep in mind that 1.5 troop columns will be both more frequent and easier to detect. That means you'll get more of those and if they kept reducing str by 1 each time you would probably quickly get...

I would be interested to know the developer's point of view but here's mine for what it's worth. First some perspective : some of you might be familiar with the (now defunct) 4th edition of a famous PnP RPG. While arguably not the best Role playing game, it was an interesting tabletop small squad ta...

With my Quick Learning officers from a variety of classes, i also decided to test a variety of officer skills this run with fixed squads that i tend to specialize (at least somewhat) for some types of missions. I think most choices are viable depending on what you expect the officer (and his squad) ...

I like to play with fixed squads and i like to have different squads. I also made most of my officers from quick learning soldiers so i have a number of unusual builds that i tend to like. My squads have been assembled from what was available when i built them but are still somewhat to highly specia...

OK, i'll try to make my point as clear as possible. There's actually a few different things that caused my posts in this thread. The fire grenade nerf in itself I'm not using those a lot as i try to have different squads with different synergies to make battles varied. However even this way i've bee...

I'm kind of curious: given that the prevailing opinion of a lot of the posters in this thread seems to be that to win missions you need a 100% accuracy, high-damaging attack that automatically disables its target for a turn, what do you guys do when you don't have them? Do you just not attempt any ...

I tend to agree with both points of view here. Yes , Fire Grenades are too strong in 1.4 and need some sort nerf either in effect or cost/availability because they are way too cost-efficient as they are. No , i don't think changing the fire effect to a %base proc is the right way to balance them. I'...

Intel pool? As in I should have 120 intel "banked" to be able to detect these facility leads? nmkaplan is right, sorry for the short answer. To be more precise, here is how mission detection works (unless i understood it wrong, all of this came from code digging by various people and some...