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Is the time until must-launch randomized? I swear I've been only getting operations with slightly over a day recently  Although I did have a prison break mission that I decided to send my best Shinobi/Resident Axe Murderer alone on. just narrowly hit 100% infiltration in the day I had. Dude managed to stealth his way into the prison and the group mad dashed for the evac zone. He also got to whip an axe at a sectoid before leaving. It didn't kill them but at least there's one sectoid out there who knows the score.EDIT: Just because I managed to find the screenshot I took of the loading screen before the mission and I love it: 
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Feb 21, 2017 22:22
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FoxHound-ing your way through missions without activating a single pod is one of the most satisfying feelings, I have a Shinobi specc'd for solo prison breaks who could 200% infiltrate an area in a couple days, but with advent starting to beef up patrols, and mainly the presence of Vipers, I'm increasing Team Prison Break to a Shinobi, Specialist, and Sniper, just in case. The Shinobi scouts the path to the prison, Sniper secures the EVAC zone, then the specialist opens the door from afar and everyone does their best Usain Bolt impression. I'm really glad they're adding the ability to see if bodies will be collected in the mission briefing now. I really wish I could just have someone throw an Advent officer corpse over their shoulder before they rope out.
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Feb 27, 2017 02:31
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Basic Chunnel posted:I'm assuming you've seen the mod that lets you do that Nope  I'll be tracking that down next time I play
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Feb 27, 2017 02:37
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First time I played Shen's gift I had the pre-LW2 LW mod that alters your squad sizes, letting me bring six people. Resulted in an extremely intense mission where by some miracle, no one died. It was fantastic  Also due to my extremely cautious play, I'm pretty sure the MEC death count was in the triple digits, and pretty much everyone has a "dude, you're taking too long, get a move on" line including Julian
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Mar 8, 2017 22:30
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Why WOULDNT you full stealth a mission if possible? I'm genuinely asking because I end a surprising amount of missions without any pods spotting my crew 
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Mar 14, 2017 00:14
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TK-42-1 posted:It's still a cool twist that they were actually XCOM and advent was just forcing you to fight your old command. yeah this is what I thought too, the EW expansion was basically ADVENT plugging new info into you, fighting 'rebels' and oh by the way we have these MECS you can suddenly use to crush these I honestly really love the new XCOM canon
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Apr 8, 2017 22:45
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I manage to break concealment once with a technical torching a group of five dudes. There ended up only being six dudes on the map
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Apr 21, 2017 23:26
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I've had better luck on low-odd rookie shots than with grenades of any type, I swear to god they only ever do two damage 
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May 6, 2017 22:13
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I was so happy to see XCOM using Fulton balloons to steal away Advent's poo poo This expansion owns
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Sep 11, 2017 18:18
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Zore posted:Not entirely but they have a passive skill that drastically lowers your hitrate on them when they're on nanobot swarm mode. Yeah that one was a delight to learn about  If they did that in vanilla, I apparently somehow never sent a ranger to slash at a Muton.Fortunately they went into bleedout and all three of my other soldiers had a clear shot, but
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Sep 11, 2017 22:42
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Wait are we talking Advent facilities, because I drat near attacked one while I'm still halfway through month 2  I'd rather not find an Alien Ruler while nanoweave is a novel new thing
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Sep 12, 2017 12:25
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SulphagneSocialist posted:The mission launch interface on the hologlobe says "there's a powerful alien guarding this facility" if there's a ruler. Okay whew, I haven't actually tried attacking the facility yet, but it's good to know there's a warning 
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Sep 12, 2017 12:27
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Foxhound posted:Just got the expansion and man gently caress this chosen bitch and her *teleports behind u and unsheaths katana* nothin personell..... bullshit. Having her crop up on missions with The Lost is hilarious because she's usually too busy stunning zambos and getting dogpiled by the rest to do anything about your squad.
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Sep 12, 2017 12:36
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Foxhound posted:The assassin I got is melee immune and doesn't trigger overwatch so she's kind of a pain and The Lost can't touch her and she can just run up to my guys with impunity. Yeesh, and I thought I had it bad with immunity to explosions
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Sep 12, 2017 13:32
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Foxhound posted:I can't even remember how you got the first hunter weapons pre-integrated, but how do you get them now? Pre-integrated you find them on a scanning mission where you find Big Sky's skyranger (RIP buddy  ), post integrated I want to say they're proving ground projects
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Sep 12, 2017 14:45
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Is XCOM AP common enough that I can use it freely, or should I be hoarding the stuff? I haven't used any so far for fear of needing it later
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Sep 12, 2017 23:14
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Ravenfood posted:IMO, use it when a point or two is the difference between a soldier being able to buy a nice skill or not, while the bulk of the ability buys come from the soldier's intrinsic AP. Once you get to much higher level and you've figured out your proper A Team based on what skills you have available to them, start going hog wild. That works, I think what put me off was the few times I bothered looking was right after a promotion, so buying a second skill would have been solely with XCOM AP which whoof feels like a poo poo idea. Internet Kraken posted:AP doesn't do you any good if you don't spend it. The most an ability can cost is 25, and that's just the really powerful ones. Most just fall into the 11-14 range. Take abilities you know you can get a lot of use out of (stuff like holotargeting and shredder) when those pop up. Its okay to hoard a bit of AP if you aren't struggling in combat, but there's no reason to sit on all of it. I'm absolutely the kind of guy who ends an RPG with a bag full of unused full-heal items 
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Sep 12, 2017 23:26
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Lima posted:https://twitter.com/SolomonJake/status/908508843092692993 And here I thought I was just doing really well 
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Sep 15, 2017 10:10
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snoremac posted:I don't know if this was a bug or if I just don't understand concealment. I had a concealed soldier run past an enemy citizen and he was spotted. It said "Spotted enemy". There wasn't a red eye over his movement preview so I assumed he wouldn't enter their radius, though I can't say for sure that he didn't. Is it more likely that he entered the radius and it forgot to load the red eye, or that he was a tile clear of the radius and they spotted him for some reason? It could be that no one had LoS on the specific civilian, I've had that happen a couple times where I run past, and it turns out there was a third civilian standing just out of sight
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Sep 15, 2017 11:33
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Is there any reason not to wreck up the Chosen at the first opportunity? The Hunter didn't manage to get to the first level of knowing about XCOM before I had people fastroping into his living room.
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Sep 19, 2017 13:42
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Pyromancer posted:But who will you farm for ability points then? Dammit I should have thought of that. He even had a melee vulnerability which is hilarious because I have like five high ranked rangers.  At the very least I can be super smug that the Chosen specifically have taken more casualties than XCOM  I've only lost a single Spark, although hoo man there's been a lot of panicked sprints to the evac zone carrying bleeding out comrades. The Hunter mission ended with one guy dazed, one guy bleeding out, three people covered in acid, and one guy mind controlled. It was a complete miracle that a ranger's bondmate had a single movement left, and I used it to Teamwork the ranger and loving vapourize the chosen with an axe 
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Sep 19, 2017 13:58
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Bladestorm is hilarious on missions with the Lost
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Sep 22, 2017 06:04
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Yeah I'm noticing Mox and Elena lagging behind pretty significantly, and I'm still using mag-weapons. Elena's great for scouting, but the second fighting starts she's outputting like, half the damage everyone else is. Mox is still pretty alright, but doesn't quite match my rangers in lethal capacity, and doesn't have a special gimmick besides grappling around. I keep forgetting I have a templar, I usually just throw him on covert ops because I feel bad
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Sep 22, 2017 09:41
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I really wish resistance members wouldn't pop shots off at my mind controlled dudes  Like I have this priest dead to rights in four different ways, taking a hail mary shot at literally anything else and missing would be more helpful than this.
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Sep 27, 2017 17:33
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The one time I managed to get a 100% on a hack, it's to control a Sectopod  It then proceeded to unconceal my squad and activate every single pod on the map including the lost, and Tactical Analysis every single one. It was the most glorious Concealment to FULL CHAOS turn I've ever done. Every enemy had to pick whether they wanted to move to cover or take a shot, and the only enemy they could get a clear shot on were Lost or the Sectopod
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Sep 27, 2017 21:39
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feedmegin posted:Just finished a mission where my entire squad was gravely wounded. How did I not notice that they all slump to the floor at the end of the 'back on the Avenger' animation like they've had the poo poo beat out of them lol I always find it funny when everyone lurches off the skyranger except one person, usually the sniper, standing at attention like " we won!"
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Sep 28, 2017 19:54
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How much health do the alien rulers have? I'm getting close to hitting their facilities and I just got plasma rifles/pistols. Covert Ops do wonders for keeping advent progress down
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Sep 28, 2017 20:46
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Iron Crowned posted:If you do enough damage they'll run away Yeah but I want to know how many times I'll see them/whether I can alpha strike them in one go
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Sep 28, 2017 21:30
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Completely blew alpha-striking the King Viper because I forgot he can immediately react when I move, so he froze two of my dudes when I repositioned. He's only got four health now so it'll be a treat when he reappears again. I also uh, started the facility mission with an extra soldier I've never met before. He had no headshot on the hud or anything, and I stepped away while loading to grab some water so I didn't hear if Bradford introduced him, but he had the plasma rifle and armour you'd expect from a rookie. I'm pretty sure I haven't changed any of my orders, and the only new continent bonus is that I get supply drops instantly. Anyone know what that's about?
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Sep 30, 2017 00:14
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I did notice a third order under XCOM, but didn't pay attention too hard since I was in a rush to try out the instant supplies bonus  That must have been what it was
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Sep 30, 2017 01:39
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I was sure I didn't add any orders Can you seriously end up with an Advent soldier though? That sounds rad as hell
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Sep 30, 2017 03:19
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Do you get to keep the extra resistance fighter, like during VIP missions where you can recover the escort, or do they disappear afterwards? I imagine the Advent guy doesn't join
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Sep 30, 2017 03:35
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So is there a way to inflict weaknesses on Chosen? Because I finally found the Warlock and he's packing five strengths and a weakness to explosives, which I rarely use His spectral zombies are bouncing harmlessly off my dozen or so Bladestorm rangers, so at least I got that going on.
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Oct 1, 2017 00:22
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I do have a bunch of high ranking grenadiers, but I usually use them for shredding heavy armour. I also have nearly a hundred XCOM AP, so I might have to start broadening my horizons a bit  How often do Alien Rulers show up? I've been waiting for that punk-rear end Viper King to show himself so I can finish him off, but the bastard's hiding
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Oct 1, 2017 01:59
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Unrelated to my Viper King woes, I had a dark VIP mission, and they were real close to the evac zone, so I stuck my squad in the evac zone, overwatched everyone but my psi operative, and Dominated the VIP. Their escort all immediately died in a hail of plasma, and the VIP sprinted over and left with the rest of the crew. Easy as can be and I didn't even have to pick them up
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Oct 1, 2017 02:42
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I really kinda miss Long War's ability to create squadrons. It's easy enough to micromanage a bit before each mission, but stiĺl.
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Oct 2, 2017 17:27
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Guess who showed up on the wrong side of a Retaliation mission!  Jokes on you buddy, I always send my A-Team on rescue missions 
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Oct 3, 2017 00:08
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I feel like mind control is a lot more common in WOTC, not just for Advent but for XCOM too. I always remember mind control being a gamble before but now it feels reliable enough to bank on. As much as you can bank on anything, at least.
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