LWR vs LW1.1

[coze]

which is your favorite ? And are there any other mega mods that I am not aware of ?

I kinda like LWR but nerfing of rockets/explosives is boring. I like the emphasis of cover, but sometimes you just want to blow ♥♥♥♥ up :)

LW1.1 is good in that sense, it is less balanced but it means it can also go in a really bad way against your favor. I wouldnt recommend ironman in this, it is less predictable.

[Endoskeleton_Jim]

long war doesent nerf explosives youre just a casual

[Yoinkyz]

they are completly different. rebalance enemys come to you. in og you had to slowly edge up on the enemys. cant really compare other then rebalance being far more compleable

[Moneybucks]

As someone who played a lot of Long War, didn't like an earlier version of Rebalance and is now trying it again, I can confirm that explosives are nerfed insofar as cover destruction goes.
I suppose you could say the way they otherwise interact with the damage soaking that cover provides, and the way that armour piercing and high explosive are separated out, is something of a nerf as well, but the rest of the mechanics account and compensate for it, so I see it more as a mechanic in the context of Rebalance.

More broadly, with the more recent changes to make chain activations less punishing, I'm enjoying Rebalance. A lot of the mechanics are just more intuitive. I like Long War too; I prefer the class builds, and the research paths.

Ultimately, though, Long War has remained static for years while Rebalance remains under constant development and expansion. Rebalance wins out on that basis for me, I think.

[hawkeye]

Does LWR fix the problem of almost every battle being at night?

[Sabaithal]

Re-balance made too many changes I wasn't a fan of, like chain pod activations. I prefer the more thoughtful approach you have to take in LW OG.

Also either way I mod either mod to suit my own preferences. You can modify almost anything in defaultgamecore.ini