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Its a bug. Reboot the game.
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If there's one mod I added this weekend that I don't regret it's the Archer voicepack. I now have a Sterling Archer specialist complete with turtleneck and NVG and it takes the edge off when you accidentally activate two pods and a turret.
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Jan 23, 2017 02:12
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I was looking through the achievements and saw "Who needs Tygan? Beat the final mission using only conventional gear." Am I understanding correctly that they mean the starting armor + weapons? How the gently caress is that possible? I feel like even if you just had to fight the Avatars, they would heal almost as fast as you could damage them and basically 1-shot your guys in return. And that's ignoring the stuff streaming out of the portals and the mission-worth of endgame aliens you have to go through to get to them.
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Jan 23, 2017 02:51
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Avasculous posted:I was looking through the achievements and saw "Who needs Tygan? Beat the final mission using only conventional gear." Basically, you bring a whole herd of Psi Troopers with the starting amp to the final mission.
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Jan 23, 2017 02:52
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Zoran posted:Basically, you bring a whole herd of Psi Troopers with the starting amp to the final mission. Oh, gotcha. I kind of figured they were out since you need research (i.e. Tygan) to get them. I can see doing it by spamming the hell out of their auto-damage abilities, Stasis, and Inspire, though it still seems like it could go pear-shaped really fast, and taking out the Sectopod has got to be tedious as hell.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:05
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There's no time limit on the final mission, so you can just keep ending your turn after each pod and wait for all your stuff to come off of cooldown. Also, with a team full of psi troopers, you're going to have a lot of dudes dominated. For the sectopod, just stun it with a specialist and focus fire it down.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:10
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Ornamented Death posted:There's no time limit on the final mission, so you can just keep ending your turn after each pod and wait for all your stuff to come off of cooldown. Also, with a team full of psi troopers, you're going to have a lot of dudes dominated. For the sectopod, just stun it with a specialist and focus fire it down. or just lock it down with stasis at the end of the turn.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:17
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Can you use special ammo and still get that achievement? Seems like that would help quite a bit.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:21
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Ok I found the actual bullshit of LW2: Vipers. They are the same old, but the AI was changed so they would shoot binded targets, so basically anyone the Viper grabs is dead no matter what.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:49
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Bholder posted:Ok I found the actual bullshit of LW2: Vipers. I think they did that in the better AI mod, too. Not a huge fan.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:54
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Synthbuttrange posted:Its a bug. Reboot the game. Oh, i dunno, it is kind of therapeutic shooting sectoids in the face.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:55
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Bholder posted:Ok I found the actual bullshit of LW2: Vipers. yep. i learned that the hard way, but got some lucky rolls for damage and the grabbed dude survived with 1 hp.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:57
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No special ammo according to the list I googled.Roobanguy posted:or just lock it down with stasis at the end of the turn. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. And stasis has what, a 4 turn cooldown? So with 6 psionics, you could do it forever if you had to. The bigger problem would be the final fight, when there could very easily be 10+ Archons/Andromedons/Codexes/Gatekeepers/Avatars out by the time the 3rd Avatar shows up, all of whom have the mobility and firepower to murder your unarmored guys from a mile away in 1-2 attacks. Even spamming dominate and stasis, I feel like it would just take 1 bad turn there to be totally hosed.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:58
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I dunno, by the time you get to the avatar room, you're going to have at least a couple gatekeepers and andromedons. Save your last two dominates for things that are in the avatar room, even if only to draw fire, and you can probably buy yourself enough time to take out the avatars. Of course, the problem with dominating andromedons is that once the first form goes down, the second is not under your control, so you could be adding to your problems by bringing a bunch with you.
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Jan 23, 2017 04:08
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Man I really hope the 1.1 patch really improves the conveyance of...a lot of things really, but as an example; I'm not sure how many people remember that there's even an objectives menu in the Commander's room, much less that they would've made use of it to tell you how to liberate regions.
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Jan 23, 2017 05:13
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Is there a list of quality of life / "good" mods that are not LW for someone picking this up again? Trying to browse the workshop but it's all stupid cosmetic poo poo from Mass Effect or whatever I'm not interested in.
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Jan 23, 2017 05:17
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Just discovered that the infiltration boost from spending intel is 75% of what you already have, not 75% flat (ie won't boost you from 0->75%)Antti posted:Good lord rocket scatter is exactly as stupid as it was in LW1. You pretty much need the perk that makes them more accurate. Thanks for this.
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Jan 23, 2017 05:28
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terrorist ambulance posted:Is there a list of quality of life / "good" mods that are not LW for someone picking this up again? Trying to browse the workshop but it's all stupid cosmetic poo poo from Mass Effect or whatever I'm not interested in. Antti's list is very good (so good that I have now added it to the 2nd OP)
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Jan 23, 2017 05:32
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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=746389497 Get this mod. It removes that god awful pause between reloads & overwatches. Holy poo poo I can't believe it took me almost a year to find this mod.
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Jan 23, 2017 05:37
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man, playing with not created equal was a mistake. all my snipers have poo poo accuracy, but i didn't realize it til it was too late. e:large pod?  no problem 
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Jan 23, 2017 06:05
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Technicals are really loving good. I wish Assault were like it were in the LWPP, because between the loss of their sword and Fleche ability along with it, and the shotgun nerf in general, they kinda have low viability outside of certain scenarios.
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Jan 23, 2017 06:26
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Roobanguy posted:man, playing with not created equal was a mistake. all my snipers have poo poo accuracy, but i didn't realize it til it was too late. Pfft, you don't need that flamethrower. All you need is the Exo-suit, because it has the Shredder. http://streamable.com/qw254
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Jan 23, 2017 06:58
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Shredstorm Cannon was my end all favorite heavy weapon in vanilla. I hope it's not too banged up for LW2  Sure, Proximity Mines can erase entire city blocks, the Blaster Launcher was your very personal "gently caress you" to the game at any point, but cleaning an entire street and doing as much damage to the environment as you are to the enemies in a huge line? gently caress yes. Shredstorm Cannons basically embody that XCOM Annihilation gif.
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dyzzy posted:I think they did that in the better AI mod, too. Not a huge fan. Played a campaign with A Better AI mod and never saw this despite definitely getting grabbed on several occasions, so I'm not sure about that, unless I got extremely lucky.
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I have seen Vipers shoot at bound targets before, and I think it may even have been in Vanilla. However, they only did so when they had no other targets available - I can't recall properly as it was quite a while ago, but I think they may not have been aware of any other targets. I could also be thinking of mind-controlled soldiers.
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BlazetheInferno posted:I have seen Vipers shoot at bound targets before, and I think it may even have been in Vanilla. They do it in vanilla, if they see nothing else, but if that's the case your soldier strayed too far from the group and basically deserved it. Also vipers may spit poison at bound unit even if they do see something else.
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I've seen vipers shoot poison at hacked Mecs. had one kill a low health sectoid i planted the mec near once.
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Jan 23, 2017 08:31
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hahahahahahaha. After being hit month after month with Faceless purges in East and West US, I finally got this poo poo under control. Last month my income was 601, pilferage 1. And IMMEDIATELY thereafter, I get the Faceless purge mission.
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Jan 23, 2017 09:11
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I love the flamers of this game, especially when panic infliction is involved. http://www.pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=23589 New changes coming to the flamer in 1.1 that'll make it better!
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My first two missions had engineers as rewards. One had nice 5 day infiltration time, so squad of 4 dudes handled that without problems. The other one had less than 2 days. Dropped in at 8% infiltration, light-moderate & impregnable. With 10 rookies. Grenades for days.
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Jan 23, 2017 15:37
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It's always Bring your Grenades to Work Day! 
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Friction posted:My first two missions had engineers as rewards. One had nice 5 day infiltration time, so squad of 4 dudes handled that without problems. The other one had less than 2 days. Dropped in at 8% infiltration, light-moderate & impregnable. With 10 rookies. Is the list of enemy numbers on missions a few posts back at 100% infiltration? 18 enemies in an 8% mission like that seems off when I just played a very light at 96% with 13 enemies.
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Yeah I don't understand how the overall Advent activity level (Extremely light, swarming, etc) interact with the alertness you can control via infiltration (vulnerable, guarded, impregnable, etc)
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Lester Shy posted:Sometimes there's an Advent van with a mouse icon on the back door, but when I get a unit up next to it and left click it, nothing happens. Right clicking just moves the unit to the next space over, wasting my turn. What am I doing wrong? This is a bug. I have the same problem. I'm watching xwynn's LW2LP and he had the same thing happen as well - apparently you can open the door from some squares and not others, with no indication right now of which squares will or will not work. So, it's not just you, and it's not that it's in your action menu without your knowledge of it. I'm also experiencing a bug where Shadowfall doesn't work. Beyond that I just have geoscape map performance problems. LW2 looks pretty great otherwise; I played 4-5 missions last night but am going to start it again tonight after seeing some of the changes in action. Also and lol@shinobi. The Bramble posted:Yeah I don't understand how the overall Advent activity level (Extremely light, swarming, etc) interact with the alertness you can control via infiltration (vulnerable, guarded, impregnable, etc) This is it exactly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn78E_7ZJes Basically the enemy activity level shown at the left indicates generally the number of enemies on the map if you are at 100% infiltration at mission start - if you are less than 100%, enemy numbers are increased, but only rarely will they be decreased if your infiltration % is greater than 100. KaiserSchnitzel fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Jan 23, 2017 |
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KaiserSchnitzel posted:This is a bug. I have the same problem. I'm watching xwynn's LW2LP and he had the same thing happen as well - apparently you can open the door from some squares and not others, with no indication right now of which squares will or will not work. So, it's not just you, and it's not that it's in your action menu without your knowledge of it. This happens in vanilla too. It's a really annoying bug and I can't believe it hasn't been fixed.
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:Is the list of enemy numbers on missions a few posts back at 100% infiltration? 18 enemies in an 8% mission like that seems off when I just played a very light at 96% with 13 enemies. The Bramble posted:Yeah I don't understand how the overall Advent activity level (Extremely light, swarming, etc) interact with the alertness you can control via infiltration (vulnerable, guarded, impregnable, etc) What was your region's advent strength level? That's the one remaining variable I noticed people not mentioning (probably because it's like, a tiny text blurb over the havens), and honestly it would be perfectly in-character for Long War to have Light to mean completely different things due to a number you can't easily see when you go to view a mission, instead of taking advantage of the fact that they have 10 different levels to describe a mission's difficulty to not do that in the first place.
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Taffer posted:This happens in vanilla too. It's a really annoying bug and I can't believe it hasn't been fixed. No kidding? That sucks. I hadn't experienced that. It really is drat annoying.
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Apoplexy posted:hahahahahahaha. After being hit month after month with Faceless purges in East and West US, I finally got this poo poo under control. Last month my income was 601, pilferage 1. And IMMEDIATELY thereafter, I get the Faceless purge mission. How do I get to do a purge? Assign an adviser and hope for the best?
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Correct. Soldier liaising with the haven will get you your Faceless.
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So I get Enemy Activity Levels, but what exactly does Enemy Readiness imply?
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