Second Wave (LWR)

2020-08-14T03:53:00Z

Cadence: Alien bases no longer have Itchy Trigger Tentacle enabled as of version 1.27.

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| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px; width: 10%" | Damage Roulette
| style="padding: 10px 15px; width: 43%" | Weapons have much wider range of damage.
| style="padding: 10px 15px; width: 43%" | Same [[Second Wave (EU2012)#Damage_Roulette|damage algorithm]] as in Long War EU.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 1
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | New Economy
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | The funding offered by individual council members is randomized.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | [[Second Wave (EU2012)#New_Economy|Same as in vanilla EU]].
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| style="text-align: center;" | 2
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Strict Screening
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | All soldier starting stats (including unique soldiers) are fixed at the averages of soldiers' typical ranges with +5 will.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Overrides Balanced Soldiers (#31). By default soldiers will have randomized starting stats. Selecting this option will revert to fixed starting stats for all soldiers.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 3
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Predictable Potential
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Promotion stat gains are non-random.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Replaces Hidden Potential, as that feature is now enabled by default.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 4
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Training Roulette
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Each soldier's training tree will be partially randomly generated.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Does not affect MEC Troopers. Does not affect the initial preset soldiers unless Fresh Recruits (#33) is activated.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 5
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Save Scum
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Loading a saved game will reset the random number seed.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Unchanged from [[Second Wave (EU2012)#Save_Scum|Vanilla EW]].
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| style="text-align: center;" | 6
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Green Fog
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Soldiers and MECs have a 10% chance to lose 1 HP per turn (can not go below 1 HP) after 20 turns
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Replaces Red Fog, as that feature is now enabled by default. Red Fog can be disabled with Just a Flesh Wound (#34).
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| style="text-align: center;" | 7
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Absolutely Critical
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Flanking shots receive +100 bonus (instead of +50) to critical hit chances.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Unchanged from Vanilla EW.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 8
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Not So Long War
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Overall campaign length halved.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Replaces Liberators. When combined with Very Long War (#9), the campaign length is tripled instead.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 9
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Very Long War
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Overall campaign length doubled.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Replaces Dynamic War. (LW 1.0 issues with DW have been fixed and all LWR games are DW games)
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| style="text-align: center;" | 10
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Results Driven
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | A country will offer less funding as its panic increases.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Same as Long War.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 11
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Elite XCOM
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | All XCOM units gain +25% hit chance in all cases
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Same as Cinematic Mode in Long War, but now provides +25 aim by default.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 12
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Air Domination
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | XCOM aircraft gain +100% fire rate.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Replaces Diminishing Returns. This option allows greater control over air game difficulty.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 13
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Wear and Tear
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Items carried by soldiers will sometimes wear out after missions, even if the soldier isn't injured.||
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| style="text-align: center;" | 14
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Itchy Trigger Tentacle
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Upon being revealed, some aliens may attempt to shoot at soldiers instead of moving or going into Overwatch on all missions.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Same as Long War.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 15
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | War Weariness
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Overall funding levels drop over time.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Same as Long War.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 16
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Bronzeman Mode
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Allows restart of missions via Pause menu in Ironman mode.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Same as Long War.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 17
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Total Loss
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Sometimes lose gear from soldiers who are killed or left behind (Normally, gear can only be lost on failed missions).
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Same as Long War.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 18
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Commander's Choice
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | You may select the class of each soldier upon promotion to specialist.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Use the cycle-soldier icons at the bottom of the class selection screen in the barracks view to rotate through the classes. For Controllers press L1/R1 or LB/RB or whatever you use to cycle soldiers.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 19
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Aiming Angles
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Units receive an aim bonus the closer they are to flanking an enemy.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Same as Long War.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 20
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Mind Hates Matter
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Genetically modified soldiers cannot undergo psi testing, and vice versa.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Same as Long War.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 21
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Hidden Trees
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | You cannot see perk options for ranks a given soldier has not attained.||
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| style="text-align: center;" | 22
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Durability
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Items never need to be repaired.||
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| style="text-align: center;" | 23
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | United Humanity
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Exalt is inactive. Exalt troopers may still show up on some alien missions.||
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| style="text-align: center;" | 24
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | The Friendly Skies
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Your interceptors gain +25% hit chance during air combat.||
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| style="text-align: center;" | 25
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | We Are Legion
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Use 2 additional soldiers on Exalt covert op extraction and Exalt data recovery missions||
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| style="text-align: center;" | 26
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Defective Outsiders
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Outsiders no longer gain stats from the "Growth" perk.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Replaces Miracle Workers.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 27
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Quick and Dirty
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Decreases the number of aliens on most missions by 40%
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | This value can be changed in DefaultGameCore.ini.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 28
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Hidden Chances
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Enemy to-hit values will be hidden.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Replaces Perfect Information, as that feature is now enabled by default.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 29
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Recon
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | You will see meld cans and bomb nodes in the fog.||
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| style="text-align: center;" | 30
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Sturdier UFOs
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | UFOs (except fighters/destroyers) will always be shot down.||
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| style="text-align: center;" | 31
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Balanced Soldiers
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | New recruit stats are balanced instead of fully randomized. Does not affect unique soldiers.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Similar to Long War where no recruit is clearly superior to another. Weighting of stats: Mobility = 8, HP = 4, Aim = 2, Will = 1.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 32
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Wolverine Blood
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Injury times are reduced by 50%.||
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| style="text-align: center;" | 33
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Fresh Recruits
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Replaces the 15 intial preset soldiers with random recruits. Similar to Long War.||
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| style="text-align: center;" | 34
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Just a Flesh Wound
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Turns off Red Fog.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | With Red Fog, damage to units degrades their aim and will by 1-35, melee damage by 1-70%, throw range by 1-35%, flat DR by 1-50%, mobility by 1-6, and increases scatter by 1-100%.
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| style="text-align: center;" | 35
| style="text-align: center; padding: 10px 15px;" | Consistent Fatigue
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Soldiers and MECs no longer receive fatigue based on the number of turns a battle takes, but base fatigue per mission is increased to compensate.
| style="padding: 10px 15px;" | Same as how fatigue worked in Long War.
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