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Perks, man. Get rid of the ability tiers and use a tree a la silent storm. Unique individual perks will have to go; a few can be retained as top level ability perks

Game developers can make the workshop mods available to the general public. Rimworld does this. Maybe haemimont will surprise us, bu t i doubt they GAF the other option is getting the mod developer to post the mod on another site for dl

Basically the first tile of a move cost an additional AP. So you certainly had theoption to advance one tile at a time. I know some people around here really do not like options of this kind

Could have something to do with difficulty setting. Though it wouldn’t surprise me if fog of war is gone

Overdesigned. Makes no sense in the context of JA1 and JA2.

Reinforcement from adjacent sectors is in 1.12. You might not see it with your playstyle, but it’s there

The dark gritty realism in JA2 was in the setting, from the bombing and devastating losses in Omerta to Angel’s sister's forced prostitution, to Dynamo’s imprisonment and the conscription we learn about in Alma Ira’s and Dmitri’s little sector overviews could get a little dark at times

m4 is the commando. Really good with a barrel extender . The only problem with the m14 is 7ap cost try melee for training str+dex. Best done with a night time gank squad in a sector with buildings

The xcom devs made the design decisions they did because the game was designed for consoles, not because they were better. small maps, lack of granular control over APs, a vestigial inventory and more all militate against strategy and depth. Plus its fun to closely coordinate the actions of the team within a turn

It’s busywork if you don’t like it, gameplay if you do. Why have more than one generic rifle or pistol, other than to tweak your dopamine receptors with kit upgrades? Inventory gear with distinct characteristics and making decisions about who has what and when adds depth and variability to combat. Imo the new xcoms are almost completely lacking that lind of emergent gameplay and their combat feels shallow and redundant despite cool special abilities and “snake titties” on a phone, sorry about the errors