More specifically, how many tiles away do I have to be before I get bonus accuracy on my shotgun? Closest things I’ve found are this reddit thread and At what range do various weapons get range bonuses?. The latter is for XCOM 2. The reddit thread says, Shotguns have about 50 aim bonus at 1 … Read more
Armor in XCOM is described as being either light, medium, or heavy. What are the effects of wearing a particular type of armor? Answer The only gameplay difference is the Assault Class’s major rank ability: Extra Conditioning. For all other intents in purposes, armor type doesn’t matter. Stick your Snipers in Titan, or your Heavies … Read more
I’ve installed XCOM: Enemy Unknown on a mac, and I’m trying to configure GameRanger so I can try starting a game, see if anyone else wants to play multiplayer. Unfortunately, GameRanger doesn’t seem to recognize my XCOM installation as valid. When going to GameRanger preferences, selecting XCOM, and then searching for it on my disk, … Read more
In some menus in X-COM there are sometimes certain entries blinking. I have seen this in the mission selection and in the equipment factory screen. What does it mean? Are these recommended choices? Answer It basically means that the person supervising that division has something they want to call to your attention. It can mean … Read more
Reaper rounds provide the following benefit: Affects conventional weapons only Adds 20% to critical chance against organic targets Doubles the weapon’s range penalty At higher difficulties (classic and impossible), in XCom Enemy Within, is there a valid reason to use Reaper rounds ? Or is it better to always beeline to laser weaponry from a … Read more
Apparently, there were some patches that fixed previous methods of accessing the developer console in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, so I’m at a loss as to how to enable the developer console in Enemy Within. Is enabling the developer console possible without using mods in Enemy Within or do I have to install specific mods to … Read more
This question already has answers here: Can I increase the speed of combat? (4 answers) Closed 7 years ago. It feels like the firing animations take a ridiculously long time, and although I don’t have hard data, I think they take the majority of my missions. The sniper animation is especially egregious, I don’t want … Read more
In XCOM: Enemy Within / Unknown if you choose to delay the Council mission to investigate the fishing village (full of chryssalids) as it’s just too difficult for your current troops, does it ever come around again? The last couple of games I’ve started I’ve gotten it extremely early so I don’t want to keep … Read more
This question already has an answer here: Closed 8 years ago. Possible Duplicate: Do you get equipment back from dead soldiers? Do items carried by squad members (e.g. armour, weapons, medikits) ever get destroyed in combat? I’m wondering if I need to worry about having funds available for replacements, or if I can assume that … Read more
I seem to be encountering a very serious bug and unfortunately it has happened on the alien base assault. For the past few missions my support sometimes won’t take cover, lose the ability to shoot even if he is right next to an enemy and can’t heal any friendlies he is within range of. It … Read more
