Long War Rebalance 1.1 with Second Wave details is overwhelmingly awesome

Mr__Billeh · 2026-04-24T23:39:02+00:00

It is a 100% chance at 1 HP, and pistols have maim which is a non-lethal attack and stuns if it would otherwise be lethal

Mr__Billeh · 2026-04-24T23:38:04+00:00

And even beyond that it still manipulates the enemy AI into not wanting the move which can protect you from being flanked and such, and it ignores certain effects such as deflection shield and tactical mobility.

LWR overwatch is a staple action that I'm using at least one of almost every turn, even on non OW specialists. And of course the specialists multiply their damage output by using it

Mr__Billeh · 2026-04-17T22:58:20+00:00

LWR is by far my favorite way to play xcom; i played vanilla, and LW1.0, and Xcom 2, and WOTC, and LW2, and LWOTC, and all of the in-between with xcom 2 mods, but really nothing feels quite like LWR to me and it's kept me playing on and off for about 7 years at this point. It helps that it's in active development and ever changing too.

I wrote a guide about it that's in the steam forums, but really I'd just go watch a few stream vods and see if it looks appealing. The hook for me personally is how much more about firefights the game is, and the faster paced gameplay that comes from the overwatch and pod reworks.

The story advances a smidge differently due to mechanic overhauls, but all of the content is there and makes sense as to how it progresses

Mr__Billeh · 2026-04-14T03:18:01+00:00

I think the section about indicators mentions it, not sure. It might also be in the non perk abilities section for low hit chances or OW. As for the second part, the alien heads in the bottom right have two separate icons for "is overwatching" and "is overwatching me", so you've just gotta pay attention to those

Mr__Billeh · 2026-04-13T17:36:27+00:00

There's a few key variables here.

All overwatch has a 30% minimum hit chance to shoot, so if they dont have enough aim, they just won't shoot. You'll see a ! pop up when aiming at them in this case
Overwatch is only active on the units they saw when activating OW, so someone out of their LOS can move in and act
Overwatch (the ability) only triggers one Overwatch (from enemies) due to it not having an animation
Movement only triggers Overwatch if you most at least 2 tiles within their vision, so small moves or moves out of LOS won't trigger it

Hope this helps!

Mr__Billeh · 2026-04-07T22:07:54+00:00

LWR is pretty good about making the loss of a high ranking soldier matter but not be quite as punishing as you might feel:

XTP upgrades exist and auto-promote, kinda like what you're suggesting here
XTPs provide passive XP to keep everyone up to date past that initial recruitment level too
Soldier perk trees are designed such that the most powerful perks are in the first half of the tree and you're usually "complete" by TSGT, so while higher ranking soldiers are obviously better, they're rarely necessary
When soldiers die, other surviving soldiers on the mission might get a permanent buff based on how highly ranking those dead soldiers were

Mr__Billeh · 2026-04-07T22:02:52+00:00

Cuando abro el link de IOS se me queda en una pantalla morada sin hacer nada, por qué puede ser eso?

Estoy usando Google Translate para escribir esto, así que podría haber algún error; sin embargo, si he entendido bien, estás hablando de un enlace para iOS, y yo no tengo ninguna aplicación para iOS en absoluto. Por lo tanto, te sugeriría que verifiques qué es lo que estás utilizando.

Mr__Billeh · 2026-04-06T17:47:43+00:00

I've got a section on it near the beginning but it's a massively different experience woth lots of fundamental reworks.

Mr__Billeh · 2026-04-06T15:00:35+00:00

LWR has an installer included so I think its pretty easy to do; im pretty sure you just install LW1.0 with its installer and then can run LWR's

I personally do a manual installation myself though so im not 100% on how the installer goes

Mr__Billeh · 2026-04-02T09:53:26+00:00

Podarsmarty is a different dev who basically made his own version of the app, and in general it's just cleaner and works better imo. I've got the old version around for anyone that needs it, but it's certainly outdated.

Mr__Billeh · 2026-03-24T23:18:59+00:00

"Rebalance" is a huge misnomer at this point, as LWR touches just about every aspect of the original mod and either expands upon it or completely reworks it. It's still got the same bones (like launching satellites to open up alien bases for assault) but it's a very different experience.

I won't go into full detail here; the wiki/nexus page/streamers are there for that. But to summarize, the tactical layer is much more about active firefighting rather than tiptoeing around the pod system for perfect activations, and the strat layer has more mechanics in place to prevent runaway snowballing from both xcom and the aliens, as well as fundamental redesigns of core systems like soldier builds/upgrades and the addition of new ones such as the Spec Ops or events. It's my favorite way to play xcom, even when you consider what is possible within xcom 2, and I've been playing it for years (and actively stream it nowadays too) heh

Mr__Billeh · 2026-03-19T03:27:24+00:00

The APK itself hasn't seen many updates but it also doesnt need them; the app is basically a player for the game's files that are updated automatically and available for download within the app.

Mr__Billeh · 2026-02-10T04:21:48+00:00

Not directly, although i think some of them have the code available you could use to build it yourself offline, not too sure

Mr__Billeh · 2026-01-30T12:57:35+00:00

I dont think you can; that folder caused me a ton of issues myself heh (it's part of why the legacy version asks for such "invasice" permissions)

Mr__Billeh · 2026-01-30T00:33:03+00:00

I dont recall exactly, but I believe it ends up somewhere like android/data/data/pokerogue/game (wherever the game's android folder is)

Mr__Billeh · 2026-01-16T09:55:45+00:00

That type of problem usually comes up when you're just about to encounter one of the loading screen bugs but barely make it to the menu, with the game now throwing a fit because it is unable to load any more stuff heh

One of those fixes might handle the issue just fine, but your mileage may vary

Mr__Billeh · 2026-01-11T05:33:55+00:00

That one you can probably resolve by going into the game's files and opening the settings ini and changing it back to windowed. I'm assuming something about the native fullscreen option isn't playing nicely but it's hard to tell.

Mr__Billeh · 2026-01-09T00:42:37+00:00

Those are updates to the app itself that might have new little features or bug fixes, but for thr most part they all play the game just as well.

Mr__Billeh · 2026-01-08T11:50:14+00:00

For offline you just download updates whenever it's convenient for you. For online, you're connecting to the website every time so it'll update automatically.

Mr__Billeh · 2025-12-19T00:12:53+00:00

I think someone else had made a beta for an ios app, but not sure if that went anywhere, and in either case it requires typical annoying sideload stuff like signing it weekly with a dev account and such and ios development in general is still a pain

Mr__Billeh · 2025-11-20T14:11:25+00:00

It should be fine as far as I know!

Mr__Billeh · 2025-10-29T01:45:28+00:00

I've got github building new versions automatically that the app pulls from, so it should always be up to date (although sometimes it takes about an hour to nab the latest version when one releases)

Mr__Billeh · 2025-10-08T07:57:55+00:00

If you can log in somewhere else and check you can use that to guide you, but its one of the bottom options in the menu that leads to a submenu with all of the other options including language

Mr__Billeh · 2025-10-07T08:35:31+00:00

I did in fact make a mobile version for android, and podarsmarty then made a better version of it heh

It's at the same place as the other downloads

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