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[Flying Dice]

Oh boy, started crashing when I load saves. Verifying didn't help, going to try a full restart. If that doesn't, it's turning off cloud synch and deleting the profile, 'cause apparently a lot of people have been having that get corrupted.

[umiman]

I just had four people captured because we were one turn away from a forced evac :/  Four of my best people.

Really hope its easy to free them...

It takes some time but they'll show up as a VIP rescue.

I'm nearly at the end of my Impossible Legendary Ironman run. Max tech, no research left except for the story ones.

It's uh... very tedious. Because you spend so much time scanning and research / build times are so much longer. However, the same rules still apply.

1. Offense > defense. Rush the best guns.
2. Kill everything in one turn.
3. If you can't kill everything in one turn, run away.
4. Explosions = good. Blow everything up.

There's one new rule though.

- It's fine to lose missions. You don't lose that much. Better to GTFO than get squadwiped.

One other thing I've noticed is that unlike XCOM: EU / EW, here all the enemies scale up. So unless you soup up your weapons first, you're gonna have a shitty time. Hell, I was fighting 10hp troopers before I even had railguns. Not amusing. Now all the Advent Commanders have 13hp. It's a bit zany seeing everyone have so much health.

Also, it takes so long to rank up your soldiers now. I'm at the end game and only have one colonel.

I miss my giant robots. I hacked two of the advent's MECs but it wasn't the same...

[KingofstarrySkies]

I miss mecs so hard. :c

[Aklyon]

I miss mecs so hard. :c

[misko27]

There's still hope for Shen's last gift. Barring that, Expansions.

But yeah, MECs were fun. I only got one Enemy within playthrough under my belt before the new game, but I swear to god have this big-old mechanized warrior running around punching anyone close enough was so refreshing.

[Sirus]

Mecs never seemed to be anything more than a novelty to me. Once the charm of punching things runs out you're left with a big hunk of machine that has low-ish accuracy, lacks explosives, can't take cover, and can't be healed with medkits. I found gene-modded soldiers to be a far more reliable and versatile means of spending meld.

[Flying Dice]

Welp, I'm hosed, the black-screen crashing after loading saves has persisted through everything I've tried. GG Firaxis. :|

[KingofstarrySkies]

...Lacks explosives? They could get a grenade launcher.

[SOLDIER First]

And they start with an action that destroys cover.

[Sirus]

Guess none of my mecs survived that long. I only ever saw them with a flamethrower and a power fist to go with the heavy gun.

And they start with an action that destroys cover.

Sure, by running up to it. Which would then leave them open to getting blasted. And god help you if some of that cover was explosive.

[Chiefwaffles]

Nope. They start with an ability that lets them expend ammo to destroy terrain.

[KingofstarrySkies]

...Just, uh. Be careful with them? I guess? I liked them. Cover is for nerds.

[Aklyon]

Well obviously, you don't smash explosive cover. You use the MEC's higher health and punch the xenos in the face, or you use their giant gun instead. Cover is for units that actually need it.
Most of my MEC's job was punching out angry aliens until late game when sectopods were a threat, or teaming up if possible with the other MEC on the team and shooting the crap out of the enemy. The other one could also aoe-heal if he had to instead of the medic doing their job, and both of them managed to make it to the temple ship. (the third mec however, did not survive. A shame.)

[Sonlirain]

Mecs never seemed to be anything more than a novelty to me. Once the charm of punching things runs out you're left with a big hunk of machine that has low-ish accuracy, lacks explosives, can't take cover, and can't be healed with medkits. I found gene-modded soldiers to be a far more reliable and versatile means of spending meld.

You should use high rank snipers as mecs. They get good accuracy and an extra 10 if they stick in place.
Damn things are monsters... mecs are surprisingly squishy tho. especially on impossible.

[KingofstarrySkies]

And then gene-mod literally everyone else. Purity? BAH