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[USEC_OFFICER]

SHIV Squad works surprisingly well on easy. The basic SHIV has enough firepower to obliterate most early enemies but have trouble against Mutons, since the minigun can't kill Mutons in one hit and the SHIV can only take two blasts of plasma before it dies. Unfortunately the alloy SHIVs can't spawn with a minigun, so until you can get SHIV lasers Mutons are going to be painful. Suppressive Fire is a godsend though, since it'll reduce their accuracy by... 30 percent? 20? It's a large enough penalty that they'll sometimes just go with overwatch. That much I do know.

Once I practice my tactics (and XCOM gets some more patches), I'll jump up to normal to see how SHIV Squad does there. Hopefully they'll be awesome, because everything is going fine right now (even if I lost two brave SHIVs). I'm kinda wondering why you can't rename SHIVs though, since all of the soldiers get tons of customization. Damn meatbags and their anti-robotic bias...

I'm starting to think that the Grey Market is the key to these Classic runs. A month is much to long to wait for Council funding. When exactly do all of these items become useless? The biggest example I'm looking at is alien corpses. I only need those for Autopsies correct?

Some Foundry techs need alien corpses, certain manufacturable items will need dead aliens too (the interceptor boosts and the combat drugs come to mind), and occasionally you'll get a request from some nation for a bunch of corpses. So you shouldn't sell all of your corpses. Maybe leave... eight corpses, more if you need them to manufacture an important item.

[GlyphGryph]

alway, that's great. Makes me wonder when the first x-com Machinima is going to come out.

[DarkerDark]

To those that don't want to ruin their Ironman games:

Do not launch multiple interceptors against a single UFO, it will cause the game to glitch out big time and you will be stuck in the Geoscape forever. 

[Zangi]

Is it me...  or when I send interceptors and they are forced to retreat... the ship is healed?  (Sending 2 avalanche missile interceptors against a large in classic, do I need a 3rd?)

[Parsely]

Do not launch multiple interceptors against a single UFO, it will cause the game to glitch out big time and you will be stuck in the Geoscape forever. 

You can launch multiple interceptors at a single UFO?

[tomas1297]

 I'm doing a video LP of this and I have a horrible accent, but whatever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIrmXW1vlxM

 I figured I'd post this here since it's not quite worth of a thread.

[sluissa]

Do not launch multiple interceptors against a single UFO, it will cause the game to glitch out big time and you will be stuck in the Geoscape forever. 

You can launch multiple interceptors at a single UFO?

Yeah, it wouldn't let me launch more than one at a time. If I want to switch them out I actually have to wait for the first to return.(I always have them abort before they die, although I've cut it really close a few times and probably got lucky.)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Also, the first base mission is really really really... long... I've been at it nearly an hour, and that's probably as long as I've ever taken for any original game mission. And it only appears I'm just over half way through it. I will say I'm taking my time to be safe... but still...

[jocan2003]

Should upgrade you videos to 720p at least, anything lower on LPs are horrible

[Tarran]

I watch LPs frequently at 480p on the Large Player and I find nothing wrong with it.

[tomas1297]

Should upgrade you videos to 720p at least, anything lower on LPs are horrible

I don't know, I personally watch 360p all the time, even though my connection is good enough for HD.

[Neonivek]

For some creatures I feel like the requirement makes little sense.

Sectoids make sense because you are using their implants they have in their body destroying it in the process (or at least turning it into goo).

Others though not so much.

[jocan2003]

I watch LPs frequently at 480p on the Large Player and I find nothing wrong with it.

Or yewah 480 at the very least, 360 make it so blurry you can barely read anything. Myself i upload at 720p minimum.

[GlyphGryph]

I have a horrible accent, but whatever.

I love the accent, though the constant breathing into the mic is a bit annoying.

 I'd watch your LPs.

[EnigmaticHat]

On the topic of the gray market... am I the only one who's a little suspicious of the council members wanting alien corpses?  I mean, maybe they just want them as trophies or they think some of the aliens' body parts contain useful materials, or they want them for relatively innocent research projects like testing the effects weapons have on the corpses.  And that would be fine.

But when someone asks for 8 crysalid corpses, I get a little suspicious.  Nothing about crysalids is really worth imitating.  Mutons have great armor, robots could be useful for a variety of things, floaters have advanced propulsion systems, ect.  But all crysalids are really good at is turning humans into zombies and causing widespread terror and death.  I have a vague suspicion that they're trying to reproduce or otherwise weaponize crysalids, which just couldn't end well.

[Neonivek]

The Crysalids shells have impressive shock absorbing ability far beyond anything we have on earth.