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TheSpiritFox posted:Oh God the proxy mines are amazing. The fact that you can shoot them well past sight range... Did you ever play the original game? There were weapons called Blaster Launchers that you clicked waypoints for, even through areas you can't see, so if you have a good idea of the map layout ahead of time you could just shoot a bunch of high yield explosives to every key alien spawn on the first turn and kill the gently caress out of everything, including on the last mission where the objective was killing the mother brain and the map is always fixed, so all you needed to do was lob a couple bombs in there around a dozen corners and hallways to win. Non-aimed explosives are just 
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I've been getting a lot of interface errors (which I believe might be tied in to my mouse issue that will frequently double-register all of my clicks) where menus will just break and stop working when I'm in the base doing pretty much any kind of navigation. I'll either be unable to press escape to get to the main menu, or get an item description window stuck in the middle of my screen, or have none of the top buttons bring me to anything and just make my screen flash. It's incredibly obnoxious because most of the time it forces me to reload to my last save in order to keep playing, and since sometimes it will start up immediately upon coming back from a mission I've had to redo a few of them once or twice. Is this a common thing that there may be a fix for, or am I just kind of hosed?
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Jan 2, 2014 11:35
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Oh god that mission with the Chryssalids and the fishing boat and the more Chryssalids  I'm gonna have nightmares for months of my squad dying, retry after retry after retry...
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Jan 4, 2014 07:05
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Angry Walrus posted:Point blank shotgun for only three damage? Are you playing with damage roulette on? That's the minimum damage for a basic shotgun, happens to me all the time too. Being close only increases the crit chance, not the damage minimum. Also yeah, gently caress Thin Men in classic. Nine damage criticals on full covered dudes from across the map are horseshit.
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Jan 5, 2014 08:11
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It's even recommended to skip it because if I recall correctly it forces a terrible building layout and also wastes time and money you should be spending elsewhere in the first couple months.
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Jan 5, 2014 08:58
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Fister Roboto posted:I'm kind of salty about it. For every other country their bonuses are a positive thing about them. This just feels like a really cheap shot. Imagine if Russia got bonuses that were some joke about the Ukraine war or something. I'd be happier if they just called it Area 51 and avoided the weak attempt at a topical joke. What do you mean? Being really good at torture is definitely positive! (if you work for ARGUS)
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Mar 2, 2015 05:25
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Is Close Combat Specialist not supposed to work on drones and other flying units? Because one of my assaults with it had a bunch of drones move right next to him and did absolutely nothing. Fully loaded gun, too. This is the new update for Long War, by the way.
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Mar 2, 2015 21:59
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Fuzz posted:I like how half of the new country bonuses are tacitly racist, but the general response is, "lol that's funny/awesome!" I mean depending on how you look at it having any kind of country bonus at all is "tacitly racist". Alternately, you're a whiny baby.
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Mar 3, 2015 00:46
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I really like the Canada start. Sure, it messes up your layout and forces you to build unoptimal early power to take down later, but it gets you to the point where you're trading sectoid corpses for scientists faster and that's really important.
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Mar 3, 2015 19:52
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It depends on the type of map you'd be using it on, but Squad Sight is generally a lot more useful because Snap Shots can't hit for dick anyways.
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Mar 4, 2015 07:43
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The repair system is loving horrible and airgame is even worse than it used to be. I love long war, but goddamn does this particular aspect of it suck.
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Mar 5, 2015 03:33
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Kenlon posted:What got worse in the air war? I haven't gotten very deep in my campaign, but it seems about the same. You can't start with the cost reducer anymore, and it may just be bad luck on my part but I'm seeing a LOT more battleships in the first month on all of my starts so far, which means more tech for the aliens because I can't do dick about them.\\ On the other hand, Russia start is pretty nice.
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Mar 5, 2015 05:54
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What .ini lines do I need to change to make repairs less bullshit and to make Meld more accessible? And are either of those things changeable without making restarting mandatory?
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Mar 6, 2015 07:15
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Beautiful. 
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Mar 6, 2015 09:11
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It's worse to start with and gets a bit better over time, from my experience. That's mostly anecdotal though.
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Was the recent Long War patch significant? I just started a new game after not playing for over a year so I'm curious what I'm in for.
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