Can someone explain the Avatar timer to me?

[SenMithrarin85]

Exactly how it works? I've read that you should let it fill until the "doomsday clock" starts ticking and then you're supposed to have 20 days or so. I've seen Mr. Odd's youtube Legend playthrough and he indeed got 20 days. So why is it only 14 on Commander? I've just started the mission that attacks the Blacksite so stop the clock, buy I understand that its only 1 "pip" knocked off the bar. If another facility appears or one upgrades, I'll be screwed because I don't have the supplies to upgrade the comms facility. I have also just built the skulljack if that helps.

[SunDrippedDevil]

That got patched since. The timer amount is now different and no longer resets. You can no longer just cheese it and ride it out every time. It's better to try and manage it (it always was anyways)

Knocking out blacksites doesn't always only remove one pip. Blacksites can be worth different pips, and Avatar Progress dark events add more pips to active blacksites on the map.

Normally, you can see how many pips a blacksite is worth by looking under it, but this is currently bugged in the latest patch. However, this is a mod that fixes it on the steam workshop.

Besides knocking out blacksites, there are a few other ways to knock further progress off of the bar: Doing the campaign objectives.

Please also note that if there are no blacksites on the map, then the progress dark events will add the progress to the central pool (which can only be removed by completing campaign objectives).

Edit: Here is the mod that fixes the bug:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=807973360&searchtext=

[red255]

Originally posted by SenMithrarin85:

Exactly how it works? I've read that you should let it fill until the "doomsday clock" starts ticking and then you're supposed to have 20 days or so. I've seen Mr. Odd's youtube Legend playthrough and he indeed got 20 days. So why is it only 14 on Commander? I've just started the mission that attacks the Blacksite so stop the clock, buy I understand that its only 1 "pip" knocked off the bar. If another facility appears or one upgrades, I'll be screwed because I don't have the supplies to upgrade the comms facility. I have also just built the skulljack if that helps.

Uh. there are ini files. the numbers are all in the ini files. they vary by difficulty, and you can change them if you want to change them.

I've changed mine unfortunately so i can't look them up for you.

[Toenails10]

dont change nothing, deal with it, fight hard for the blacksite with standard weapons, drop it back a few, then do others when in contact, its hard but do-able, took me like 20 fricn games,...
oh, avatar ticks down, do missions to stop it and drop it back a few, repaet, u may win,... or lose