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[Man of Paper]

So I've found that having a Skulljacking Hacker support and a Medic support in your team does really well in the midgame. Any mission those two are on together becomes my bitch.

[Sirus]

What is skulljacking useful for, aside from the main objective where you have to hack an Advent Officer?

[SOLDIER First]

Hacking other Advent Officers?

[Sirus]

But...what for?

[SOLDIER First]

I think you get data caches or something? At least, that's what I got from the one Skullmining gif from Reddit I found.

[Flying Dice]

That's a different ability attached to the skulljack.

Though it's also used for another story objective.

[EnigmaticHat]

What is skulljacking useful for, aside from the main objective where you have to hack an Advent Officer?

You can get an upgrade where carrying one makes you a better hacker, I believe.

[Sensei]

What is skulljacking useful for, aside from the main objective where you have to hack an Advent Officer?

You can get an upgrade where carrying one makes you a better hacker, I believe.

IIRC there are two upgrades, one that makes soldiers equipped with the skulljack get a hacking bonus (Q: Does it apply to drone remote hacks?) and also one which provides an intel bonus whenever you skulljack an enemy.

[Flying Dice]

Yes, it's a direct buff to the Hacking stat, so it works for everything.

Got my game working again, but I had to revert to my last Geoscape save. :X

[Cthulhu]

To go along with

Spoiler: Take one guess (click to show/hide)

I tried to make a Raiden agent but he came out looking more like Kylo Ren.

Are there more complex face-alterations I've missed or are the faces it has all there is?

[Chiefwaffles]

The final swordmaster ranger skill is perfect for a raiden agent. And for just about everything.
Really, the Colonel skills seem much more 'ultimate' and powerful versus their EU counterparts. Especially the Combat Medic's final skill.

[Darkening Kaos]

Spoiler: Black Facility Mission (click to show/hide)

     Just finished a mission to blow up a black facility, managed to get into the facility under stealth, following one pod, dodging another, wondered if I can complete the mission without one death.  As soon as the explosive is placed however, red alerts go off and everyone knows we are there, but we still remain unsighted, so the pods roam around loooking for the team.  It was only after placing the skyranger beacon that the Advent stormed the teams extraction point.  A Mec, jumped clear over the three storey building, (slight exaggeration, climbed up a ladder but that premise is stupid), triggering three oversight and was eliminated, a grand total of one death for the entire mission... Will keep trying to get a deathless mission, I'm lining up for the next black facility in a few more missions, I've got access to two more, just need to make contact with those regions.  Doom clock is at 6/10, gotta get that down a bit.  Only just equipped most of the team with Mag weapons, and researching plasma.  Cannot afford to make all the armour and weapons I need to outfit the team.

[Flying Dice]

The final swordmaster ranger skill is perfect for a raiden agent. And for just about everything.
Really, the Colonel skills seem much more 'ultimate' and powerful versus their EU counterparts. Especially the Combat Medic's final skill.

Agreed. That said, I also just wiped a pod with that Ranger by accidentally running into them in the fog; when they alerted they all triggered Bladestorm.

My first Psi Operative has been getting absurdly lucky training selections. Null Ray first round, then Domination, followed by Fortress, has Void Rift as of the last, and is now training Solace. That's pretty much as close as you can get to an ideal spread, both of the OP passives combined with the strongest CC and damage. Speaking of which, I know I know about snipers (though I still say that the auto-hit ignoring all cover and concealment is better whenever you can set up a multi-hit or have one thing that really needs to die) but this just feels so good to see:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Cthulhu]

Does anybody know how the advanced combat center bonus abilities work?  Is it random or do certain classes get certain ones?

I've only had one proc so far and it was shredder on my ranger, which is awesome.

[Flying Dice]

I should clarify how this works.

The AWC doesn't give a random chance to gain an ability on each level-up.

What happens is that each soldier gets a single AWC ability rolled for either when the AWC is built (for existing soldiers) or when the soldier is obtained (AWC already built).

The AWC ability is randomly pulled from "cross class abilities" -- not a list, but configured with a boolean in each ability.

The AWC is stored along with the level at which it will unlock. When the soldier reaches that level (or returning from first mission if already there), then the ability will be unlocked.

Source: I looked at the code, and the LW Officer mod stores the officer abilities in the same AWCAbilities array.

So basically any non-class ability could be rolled. Though there might be restrictions (i.e. not giving melee abilities to non-Rangers, GREMLIN abilities to non-Specialists, &c.).

For myself, I've gotten Untouchable on a Specialist, Shredder on a Ranger, Run and Gun on a Grenadier, and Ever Vigilant on a Grenadier.