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[kilakan]

That reminds me of people talking about the units appearing out of nowhere in the middle of your team.

I used to think it was fake, until I started playing again recently and it's been happening constantly. I guess one of the patches introduced it or something, it honestly is pretty irritating.

Theres also a glitch I've found a few times where you can't see the enemy aliens, they can't see you, and yet occasionally you still have mind control abilities, grenades and whatever the artillery the sectopods use being fired into your ranks.

[umiman]

Yeah, if that happens I'm probably boned.

[Leafsnail]

Do Berserkers not bother to move under overwatch in Classic and Impossible too?  Because it's making them hilariously unthreatening, and turned capturing one into a stupid farce.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I've seen them do it. The AI of Berserkers is just kind of fucked. The Chryssalids exhibit it to a lesser degree.

[Leafsnail]

"They appear to have little regard for their own safety, but if you wave a gun vaguely in their general direction they will obediently stay still".

If I shoot one they'll do the charge even if they're under overwatch, but otherwise they don't seem to bother moving even if they'd only need to move one space to mangle a dude.

[Lightningfalcon]

Does the "Sound from breaking through doors and windows" have any actual affect? 

[Leafsnail]

It attracts aliens, possibly.

[Tarran]

Didn't notice it myself. Crashed through a window and a group of mutons closest to the window did not move. To be fair another muton group further away did move in, but I'm not sure that it's not just the usual random teleporting stuff.

[Leafsnail]

Man the Overseer UFO mission went horribly wrong.  I lost one person to a teleporting Sectopod (fortunately the sectopod decided to walk around and trigger everybody's overwatch so it was just the one) and another to accidentally triggering a bunch of things.  My sniper then went down with a critical wound and my colonel-heavy-psychic got mind controlled.

Weirdly though it seems pulling back is a pretty good counter to mind control.  It wore off and I was eventually able to regain control of the situation.  Considering the mid-mission calamity I was pretty lucky to finish with 2 deaths and a successful mission.

[Leafsnail]

I can usually deal with mind control because it gives you a turn to react.  I can usually either kill the controller or run everyone away until the control wears off.  In that last mission it was probably actually a good thing because it stopped him from getting destroyed by Elite Mutons.

[Neonivek]

I can usually deal with mind control because it gives you a turn to react.  I can usually either kill the controller or run everyone away until the control wears off.  In that last mission it was probably actually a good thing because it stopped him from getting destroyed by Elite Mutons.

One time it was harmless because the AI was too stupid to know how the sniper mechanics worked. so it kept running up close and killing its accuracy to hit me.

[Mageziya]

Does anyone know what happens if you fail the Overseer ship mission or accidentally destroy the Gollop device? Does another Overseer ship appear?

[Nadaka]

Does anyone know what happens if you fail the Overseer ship mission or accidentally destroy the Gollop device? Does another Overseer ship appear?

If you fail the mission, the ship will reappear eventually.

You can not destroy the device, Ive smashed it with multiple rockets and it still came out fine.

[Mageziya]

While the non-randomly generated maps has lead to a limited variety maps, some of the touches they give these maps are really nice.

On my umpteenth Classic Ironman attempt, on the first downed UFO mission (This type of map actually tends to be the hardest to tell apart from each other.) Right at the start of the map, I saw something interesting, something I hadn't seen before. It was a Pickup Truck with one door open, a camp fire nearby, 2 lit flares on the ground, and a dead deer in the back of the truck being eaten by some ravens (Crows?). I like how hit sort of tells a story, of a person, enjoying their time out hunting, when next thing they know a Alien ship falls out of the sky,  which is then followed by fighter jet darting through the sky. I didn't find a greenified body (They never explain how abductions work, it bothers me.) or a mangled body, and seeing the car there shows they didn't drive off, so I have no idea what happened to them.

Sure, and RNG could take the tile set of that area and set it to be a rare spawn, but it's nice to see unique touches that aren't randomly hashed together.

[Parsely]

I'd imagine the guy was either vapourised (unlikely), killed by the inhabitants of the craft after it crashed (possible), or legged it.

Ooooor the alliums ate 'im