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[0x517A5D]

Oh, god. I could handle just about any ridiculous amount of Fun XCOM could throw at me, but mind control was just maddening.

The key is, each unit has a hidden variable for their psionic resistance, that you can't see until later on when you get a lab and train them.  But, you can tell approximately how resistant someone is, simply by how easily they're affected by psionic attacks.  So those recruits that get easily mind controlled, will always be vulnerable to it, so just kill them off immediately, or at least fire them if they make it back to base alive, since they're just a liability.  That way, after a while of culling off the weak ones, only those with a high resistance to mind control will be left alive.   After you can build the psi lab, you can hire large groups of soldiers and train them to know their exact number, and keep all the high mental strength ones, and fire the rest, to keep a well mentally fortified army.

Put the mentally weak ones in a second squad that you only use for Mutons and Snakemen.  Obviously you need a hyperwave decoder to figure out what race was on whatever mission you're targetting.

Probably this thread should be moved to Other Games.

[Greep]

it's fine here I think.
 
But yeah, even worse... mind control-> pull just built magma floodgate lever *grin*

And I'm thinking the ethereals are the demons, seeing as breaching HFS is akin to going to the alien homeworld.
 
Also, OP, you are a horrible horrible person.  You've just made me start playing it again.

[Corbald]

Wait, we talkin' UD, TFTD, or APOC? Or the Gawd-offal will-not-be-named one?

[Aklyon]

Obviously UD if we're talking about Mutons, Ethreals, Sectoids, Mind Control, and mentioning the PSI Lab.