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[Sheb]

Yeah, lasers. I like cutting up aliens as much as the next man, but we cannot afford to wait much longer for lasers.

[Mephansteras]

...Jilio? d=  At least he is suitably ugly.

Can you get a third item slot in LW?  I can't remember.  (It's on my list of things to play, if I ever finish my classic campaign.  Last attempt got sidelined by a crashed game and I haven't gotten back in to it.)


Let's carve up a Sectoid.

Woops, type, sorry. I'll fix his name.

And, I don't THINK you can get a third slot, but I'm not 100% certain on that.

[Toaster]

No problem.

Woops, type, sorry. I'll fix his name.

Normally I'd ignore this, but the irony is too strong here.

[Mephansteras]

*sigh* It's going to be one of those Mondays, I see...

[UXLZ]

I'll go for lasers this time as well.

I need to know this though: Are there late-game weapons that are *ballistic* or is it all laser/energy based?

[Toaster]

There are five tiers of weapons, and the first and third are ballistic.  I haven't played so I can't say for certain, but I think they're balanced so you don't just jump everyone up a tier when it becomes available- there are reasons for using the lower tiers.

[Mephansteras]

There are five tiers of weapons, and the first and third are ballistic.  I haven't played so I can't say for certain, but I think they're balanced so you don't just jump everyone up a tier when it becomes available- there are reasons for using the lower tiers.

For the most part this is true, although you pretty much go from standard ballistics to lasers on everyone as soon as you can afford to. Past that there are advantages to all of the weapons.

[UXLZ]

So my character's weapons won't just be flat-out inferior if I decide to stick to purely ballistic guns?

[RAM]

I'll vote for the anatomical inspection, mostly to be contrary...

[birdy51]

Lasers make for fun and profit.

[Sheb]

Just to be clear, there are now 5 levels of weapons, Ballistic, Beam Lasers, Gauss, Pulse Laser and Plasma. We could try to skip beam lasers, but I don't recommend it.

[Angle]

Name: Angle
Gender: Any
Nationality: American
Appearance: Any

Preferred class: Any Support
Preferred weapon: Any
Preferred equipment: Any
Preferred tactics: No losses are acceptable losses! No one gets left behind!

[IronyOwl]

I'll futiley suggest autopsies for engineers for satellites. Much as I want to take them alive, we can't be falling behind on our logistics.

[UXLZ]

Just to be clear, there are now 5 levels of weapons, Ballistic, Beam Lasers, Gauss, Pulse Laser and Plasma. We could try to skip beam lasers, but I don't recommend it.

Man, I am definitely sticking to Gauss for the late game. I haaaate plasma-based stuff, and pulse lasers, well... (They're a bit boring.) Also, the unit I'm basing my character off of uses ballistic/Gauss-based weaponry. Purely ballistic would probably be best if I was going for maximum adherence to the source material, but I doubt it will be good enough come even midgame.
Besides, Gauss is awesome.

On a more pragmatic note, what would be the benefits of skipping beam lasers? (Aside from not needing to spend the time researching them.)
Is there anything else we could research that would be massively useful if they're finished ASAP? (Like, some sort of benefit that increases the longer the thing has been researched.)

[Angle]

Yeah, as for course of action, securing the engineers and funds to get north America covered in satellites sounds super useful.