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[GiglameshDespair]

Neonivek will always find a complaint about a game.  If the game were perfect he would reorganize his definitions so "perfect" means "bad."

Well no.

That is really my only complaint storywise. It feels like a cop-out a way to sidestep making you have the feels since your killing innocent citizens.

Mutants or no, ADVENT soldiers are directly working with the aliens in an oppressive regime, they're neither "innocent" nor "civilians" by any means of the term.

[EnigmaticHat]

AFAIK disorient prevents all special abilities, including stun lancer charge (which is honestly the most important to disable unless you've got some form of revive).  Its essentially equivalent to the silence status effect from other games.  PSA: grenadier's launcher can launch flashbangs and greatly increases their radius.  Only mission I actually tried that on I got fucked up because of a unit that's immune to flashbangs, but it seems a neat trick nonetheless.

That being said I just did a mission with nothing but grenades and I have to say I'm pleased with the results.

Edit: I have five soldiers left.  One of them is wounded for 17 days.  The aliens have the "midnight raids" dark event active, doubling recruit costs.  I have 22 supplies, and the only scan available is for a black market.

[XhAPPYSLApX]

I was able to get it way earlier than I was expecting (Was expecting to get it on the 15th)

Hoping I don't totally f*ck up my first mission!

[Sirus]

I don't seem to have much trouble with stun lancers, am I the only one? The stun seems to go away once my turn starts and I haven't yet gotten any killed by it.

[Aklyon]

Meanwhile in this mission, I've managed to successfully hack twice (praise skullmining bonus):
First, hacked an Advent mec. It promptly got assaulted by both pods I couldn't avoid triggering when I went loud. Survived, blew up a sectoid with its missile pods. Hopefully didn't blow up the objective inside the truck.

Secondly, I got control of a random enemy. It turned out to be a pectoid further away than the current enemies, which is next to a muton and another pectoid for a total of 4 of them so far this mission. Did you know they have melee vulnerability and thus take more damage from swords?

[Darkening Kaos]

   Two standout moments from last night's play session.
   

Spoiler: First: (click to show/hide)

  the mission was to destroy the transmitter/beacon thing.  The team consists of ranger; grenadier; sharpshooter; and rookie, (because reckless Aussie Specialist is in the infirmary).
   The rookie races ahead up onto the roof of the building containing the relay, exposing a pod of pectoid and troopers.  The sharpshooter gets up on to the roof of a nearby house but has no line of sight.  The ranger is too far away to do anything useful, but uses one move to get cover in a bus shelter near the relay.  The grenadier is standing at the wall of the building and can only shoot straight up, so she moves away from the building and then shoots a grenade into the middle of the pod, killing the troopers outright, destroying the roof and dumping the surviving pectoid down a level ... ... ... right in to the sights of my waiting ranger, who proceeds with the accepted plan of giving all the aliums free innoculations for lead poisoning.  Pod eliminated, beacon thing destroyed, clean-up innoculations are freely given out to other aliums.

     

Spoiler: Second: (click to show/hide)

 a couple of missions later, trying to get into a building to hack a terminal without tripping any pods, my ranger drops down to the groud to try the back door, but triggers a pod and all hell breaks loose, the pod I was watching, and avoiding, now sets up to overwatch two of the team, while the ranger has to deal with the pectoid and lancer she activated, the only one not in danger is the sharpshooter, but she cannot help because the first thing the aliums do on their turn is drop a pod of lancers and mec.  The pectoid chooses to panic my ranger, who goes, "ohfuckohfuckohfuck", clambers back up onto the roof of the buiding overlooking the pod, discovers there is way too much ammo in her shotgun and empties it into the pectoid, full damage plus critical plus Talon.  The lancers gravely injure the specialist, the ranger is beaten up by another lancer, but shotgun applied vigorously to the face solved that issue, the other two - sharpshooter and grenadier - end up doing most of the mission and getting out pain-free.

    Despite my Surface barely able to run this, I am enjoying the game.  Gives me incentive to get on with fixing up my desktop, (replacement ssd required), and possibly accelerating my plan to get a Surface 4.

[Flying Dice]

By the by, if you're like me and just want to build up forever while kitting out your dudes and gradually increasing the difficulty with ini tweaks (instead of rushing through to finish the plot), here's a crucial setting:

In DefaultGameData.ini, find this:

Code: [Select]

AlienHeadquarters_DoomMaxValue
Whatever value you set for that is the number of boxes on the Doom counter. The default is 12 for each difficulty, and you can set it as high as 999 if you want a really long war. Turn this shit into the 100 Years War II.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Long War II: WAR LONGER

[Greenbane]

Well, fuck. Mainly (sorta) due to a bug, my team failed to reach the evac point during my first VIP rescue mission. The VIP made it, at least, so it wasn't a total loss.

The bug which had me waste a turn had to do with the damn locked door of the VIP's cell. I figured I had no time and grenaded the whole wall, which blasted everything around the door. The door itself exploded as well, but the squares remained impassable until the next turn (door still appeared hackable, but I had no available men, what with a zombie and a Sectoid around*). In hindsight, I could've tried to grenade the outer wall, but I guess my ingrained UFO Defense instincts told me the outer walls of alien constructions wouldn't succumb to the average frag.

So once the game recognized the wall's collapse, I had the VIP bolt past the Sectoid and onto the street. The other soldiers were running around, trying to stay in cover while still approaching the evac zone. Perhaps I was just playing it too safe. So two operatives ended up just one or two tiles away from the exfiltration point, while another two remained further behind. My original intention was to sacrifice a rookie to distract the Sectoid, but I blew that and soon reinforcements arrived perpendicular to the route to the evac point: they shot down my then-star (squaddie) sharpshooter and most everyone panicked. But this happened after the end of the final turn, so it was just ADVENT taunting me.

I wonder if soldiers flagged as Captured can be rescued in any way... Would be interesting.


*Another possible bug: the Sectoid left the building and climbed up to the roof, but could still revive the aforementioned would-be zombie and psi-fuck with my men.

[Man of Paper]

By the by, if you're like me and just want to build up forever while kitting out your dudes and gradually increasing the difficulty with ini tweaks (instead of rushing through to finish the plot), here's a crucial setting:

In DefaultGameData.ini, find this:

Code: [Select]

AlienHeadquarters_DoomMaxValue
Whatever value you set for that is the number of boxes on the Doom counter. The default is 12 for each difficulty, and you can set it as high as 999 if you want a really long war. Turn this shit into the 100 Years War II.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

My first VIP rescue involved the squad rookie getting mind controlled and missing his shots. I then got control of him and had him take cover behind a car that I did not notice was on fire. It exploded once I ended my turn. It was my first loss and I couldn't stop laughing at myself, thinking "Welcome to XCOM" all the while

[Darkening Kaos]

     Just noticed that the XCOM operative in the splash screen is my Irish ranger, {red on red armour, red shotty with expanded mag, baseball cap.  Yep, it's her alright}.

Spoiler: Edit (click to show/hide)

[Man of Paper]

Aw sweet, me too, except in green armor. Didn't notice that before.

[Sirus]

Yeah, it seems to choose one of your own soldiers. My (so far only) grenadier has been on the splash screen at least once.

[Flying Dice]

I got my Japanese gangster with the pink heart-patterned minigun on the splash screen. :V

[KingofstarrySkies]

I wonder if soldiers flagged as Captured can be rescued in any way... Would be interesting.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Apparently you can get missions (emphasis on CAN) to rescue captured soldiers later.

But it's not a guaranteed thing, so better to work on the assumption you're not seeing them again.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

They can be encountered as ADVENT. Or rescued. There's a third possibility, I think?