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
As the title says, is the will cap on XCOM 150? I have some 100+ will soldiers and the psi armor and mind shield combo gives a total of 50 will. In any instance the will of my soldiers never goes above 150. Does that mean getting multiple mind shield is useless as I only … 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
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
As soon as you use MELD to manipulate a soldier genetically, he gets new armor. All of the new armor-decos are sleeveless. How does it look when I equip a genetically manipulated soldier with carpace armor? Will it also become sleeveless or does it more look like the normal one? Answer The Carapace Armour will … Read more
First, let me create a scenario. I’ve got a soldier (no specific soldier) with psychic ability mind control. he is facing two enemies, namely a muton and a sectopod. I’ve used mind control on the muton and succeded. I ended the round and as usual, the muton is flanked by the sectopod and killed the … Read more
One of the Covert Operations missions is Covert Extraction. The third and final objective, once you get your operative to safety, is as follows: Eliminate the remaining EXALT forces, or get to the EVAC zone. Are there any benefits to killing the EXALT forces instead of just fleeing? Answer Depending on where your forces are, … Read more
XCOM Enemy Within adds medals which you can award to your soldiers. Another question covers how you earn medals, but I would like to ask what things I should consider when deciding who to award a medal to? Are any medals particularly effective for some classes? Are any of the medals wasted on certain classes? … Read more
I’m on my first play through of enemy within and currently have a MEC unit and am aware that you can upgrade them using the rank, but I was wondering is there a way to either unlock additional armors for the MEC warriors or is there any upgrades that I can get for them in … Read more
