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[Chiefwaffles]

Also a relevant question: Do the new weapons level up with the rest of your stuff or will they be the exact same as when you first got them at beam tier?

[umiman]

Also a relevant question: Do the new weapons level up with the rest of your stuff or will they be the exact same as when you first got them at beam tier?

They level up.

[Aklyon]

That would probably work better not on ironman, wouldn't it?

[Sonlirain]

Quick question: How far into the game do you need to get to do the new missions? Don't want to commit to a new playthrough if I'm not going to have the time.

Almost immediately. The game basically throws you the OPweapons straight up.

So... are the new weapons the new Slingshot?

[umiman]

Quick question: How far into the game do you need to get to do the new missions? Don't want to commit to a new playthrough if I'm not going to have the time.

Almost immediately. The game basically throws you the OPweapons straight up.

So... are the new weapons the new Slingshot?

In Slingshot you actually have to beat the missions to get the gear.

Here they give them to you.

The caveat is that the challenge is 5x that of Slingshot.

[Chiefwaffles]

Yeah. The weapons really just make the challenge added by the alien leaders bearable. For the few missions between getting the weapons and before the alien leaders appearing, it's easier though.

[umiman]

Yeah. The weapons really just make the challenge added by the alien leaders bearable. For the few missions between getting the weapons and before the alien leaders appearing, it's easier though.

I also really like that they made it so you only have one of each. That way if one of your dudes die with the gear, you really go out of your way to save their corpse. I think it's the first time I've actually ever bothered to do that.

My guy holding the frost grenades died in the mission where you scout out the blacksite. I had to haul his corpse all the way back.

[scrdest]

You know how sometimes everything that could possibly wrong in a mission, does?

After losing the very squaddie I sent with my A-team to train and having the rest be banged up by Blazing Pinions and MEC grenades on a UFO raid, I thought it couldn't get any worse on the next mission, an Item Recovery, Operation Dawn Child.

Well, it didn't! In fact, I'm still giddy over how well it went. After surmounting the daunting task of crossing a road, basically the entire confrontation took place in an alleyway between three buildings, with the objective in the building to the far left.

Enemy dramatis personae: a MEC and an Advanced MEC plus a Stun Lancer on a walkie, presumably, in the alley, two sneks and a newly introduced Andromedon in the second floor of the closer building on the left. A wossizface Floater-guy and two Sectoids behind the window in the objective building.

Concealment is broken by Lt. 'Shakes', the combat hacker voted 2035's Most Likely To Be An ADVENT Mole Or Possibly The Notorious Hacker Anonymous subverting the weaker MEC and thusly waking up both the MEC and the Andromedon pods.

Enter the Sniper. With the tenderizing from the other squadmates, she kills both Vipers, the Advanced MEC, the Andromedon's first phase and half the second in a single turn, then proceeds to wipe out the entire reinforcement ship on her lonesome, while armed with a mag sniper rifle whereas the others have Plasma weapons.

Shakes overconfidently dashes into the objective building, waking up the Sectoids and getting Panic'd for her trouble, but she redeems herself by hacking the detonator and getting the +20 Hack skill bonus, while a Ranger, Taja 'Coyote' Gunda, cuts down all of the remaining enemies with an Arc Blade without taking any damage thanks to Untouchable.

Mission. Fucking. Accomplished. And wholly and completely legit, no gameplay mods, no savescum, not even an all-Colonel squad, though most were pretty high-level.

[SOLDIER First]

?!?!?!
PLAYABLE BRADFORD!?!?!?

[Urist Imiknorris]

Only for the new mission.

[SOLDIER First]

;n;

[scrdest]

You can already play him, he's one of the cheat characters.

[SOLDIER First]

Which means you can't if you don't know about the cheat.
So not playable.

[scrdest]

Which means you can't if you don't know about the cheat.
So not playable.

Well, I mean, it's just a matter of renaming the character (and losing achievements for that run), AFAIK. But it turns out that contrary to what I believed, Bradford is not in the roster for these, so the point is moot.

[Furtuka]

Which means you can't if you don't know about the cheat.
So not playable.

Well, I mean, it's just a matter of renaming the character (and losing achievements for that run), AFAIK. But it turns out that contrary to what I believed, Bradford is not in the roster for these, so the point is moot.

IIRC, there's a mod that adds him to the cheat roster.

His body is in the pre-provided character pool as well