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[Pwnzerfaust]

Alrighty, sounds like a plan. Looking forward to seeing him bag some UFOs, yay.

[CJ1145]

interesting character. I assume he has some way of communicating if he works in a lab. written communication I'm guessing?

Sorry for the huge delay in response, but that would be correct.

[cganya]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

oh good god I'm getting frustrated. I just went through a whole alien base without save scumming and this final room is giving me a headache and has made me break my save scumming oath.

i dont care if aliens can see further than me in the dark or through smoke or whatever. but this is just wrong. every time I enter this room an alien with a blaster launcher fires into the room below him setting off a chain reaction that completely destroys the room below it. it then proceeds to fire a second blaster bomb down into the room, out it and at the rest of the team, which it has never seen. the alien species does not have psionics. there is only one alien with a blaster launcher up there.

now I'm not one to be defeated by a computer opponent that has resorted to cheating, I feel its fair game to initiate a little bit of cheating myself (savescumming) but its getting ridiculous. the aliens above are apparently immune to grenades >.<

Gonna see if they are immune to high explosives too before i decided to bork the whole thing and send a soldier in as a suicide bomber.

also apparently proximity grenades are useless in my game. I thought at first one had fallen victim to the save and reload bug that turns them into duds (had to save the mission and go to bed before I could finish it) but when using one again tonight it completely failed to explode, even for my own soldier! blargh. bear with me, the end of this mission is not going to make any damn sense. A shame too because up until now I have been having the luck of the Irish.

edit - I suppose I should spoiler this as it is a spoiler. this spoiler contains me being mad at the game and taking my non save scumming gloves off for a specific problem.

[RAM]

Spoiler: psychic aliens (click to show/hide)

The way I heard it was that if an alien sees someone, all aliens know the location of that unit for a few turns, it was probably the easiest way to keep track of the general area that the humans are by a couple of orders of magnitude. Although letting them shoot without any direct line of sight at the time is a little crazy. My personal nemesis is getting my entire team psychically attacked, and picked off one-by one, without anyone ever seeing the source after searching the whole base twice...

[sluissa]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

In addition to RAM's spoiler, I also believe, at or around turn 20, the aliens all permanently know the location of all of your soldiers.

[Knick]

Hi,

My first Let's Play.  May I request a character--preferably a scientist who is interested in testing and examining alien artefacts.  You can pick a random, male first name, last name Knick.

Thanks.

[RAM]

Make their first name Fin!

[cganya]

Hi,

My first Let's Play.  May I request a character--preferably a scientist who is interested in testing and examining alien artefacts.  You can pick a random, male first name, last name Knick.

Thanks.

Make their first name Fin!

Done and done! welcome to the team Fin Knick.

Also, holy crap, so thats how people do that. *Anya just discovered the insert quote link*

[cganya]

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In addition to RAM's spoiler, I also believe, at or around turn 20, the aliens all permanently know the location of all of your soldiers.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

that was implemented in order to force the aliens to move towards the humans and remove the "find last alien in a closet" annoyance. However past turn 40 these aliens refused to move and were in a perfect ambush position. trying to charge them resulted in dieing by plasma fire upon going a lift.

[Knick]

Thanks.  Dr. Fin Knick reporting for duty!

You give me the gear, I'll figure out what to do with it!

[andrea]

the last room in the abse is annoying... there is always somebody with a blaster up there. and he Will fire at you and blow up everything. All I could do was alien grenades, or suicide soldier.
of course, this doesn't help you if you are trying to get a commander.

[Knick]

Take a high explosive.  Have a red-shirt carry it into the inner chamber.  Throw it to the second floor.

Boom.  Roasted in the shell.

Then I get to look at the Blaster laucher.

[cganya]

Take a high explosive.  Have a red-shirt carry it into the inner chamber.  Throw it to the second floor.

Boom.  Roasted in the shell.

Then I get to look at the Blaster launcher.

Well I pretty much did that. It resulted in the mother of all chain reaction explosions which means your blaster launcher might not have survived that one. I feel bad that this worked that way because I partly decided they were cheating because the chain reaction explosion the aliens were setting off should have destroyed their own encampment. so the chain reaction explosion i set off would have destroyed my own.

wonky single layer explosion effect. Ah well, I'll action movie it.

[Knick]

Memo to:  CMDR Snow

FROM:   Dr. Knick

RE:  Weaponry Research

I have taken the opportunity to review both the files and the video footage of skirmishes between X-Com forces and the enemy.  Based on the information so obtained, I would request that alien explosive weaponry be obtained as soon as possible for study.  I believe these weapons could decisively change the course of the this war in our favour.  The risk to X-Com personnel in capturing these weapons would be far outweighed by the lives saved with the use of superior firepower.

[zchris13]

We need stun bombs. That is all.