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[Untouchable]

I remember on one of the escort missions where a thin man dropped down in the middle of my group and went into overwatch. I'm glad that you can't hurt allies in a situation like that because 4 people tore him apart as soon as he appeared.

[alway]

Is it just my imagination, or were enemy numbers on maps greatly nerfed in one of the patches? I'm getting missions with like 5 aliens on classic mode. It's really, really boring; to the point where I'm nearly abandoning good tactics to simply curbstomp the few on the map.

[jocan2003]

Is it just my imagination, or were enemy numbers on maps greatly nerfed in one of the patches? I'm getting missions with like 5 aliens on classic mode. It's really, really boring; to the point where I'm nearly abandoning good tactics to simply curbstomp the few on the map.

Thats why you should get a modded impossible so you always get lots of ennemy in tactical, but still has the classic difficulty or even normal diff in strategical view.

In my latest impossible terror mission i killed a total of 29 ennemy... they all had that HP boost the impossible give... man that was fun. Lost only one guy because my assault missed a 80% shot...

[Sowelu]

Now that was weird.

I'm in the first Ethereal ship, a plot related one, and I put ghost armor on a guy and sneak him into the big room in the middle.  Okay, there's two muton elites and what I assume is an Ethereal.  Hide my guy in a dark corner and spend the next turn bringing up people with stunners...and then suddenly when I go to move someone, the screen scrolls into the floor and it says I've won the mission.  I didn't even hear things explode!  I did get an Ethereal corpse out of it...

(A couple missions later, I lost a Major and my favorite Colonel while trying to capture one of those bastards alive.  Bleah.  At least I got him...but in this case, it didn't do any good!)

[Sharp]

You got ghost armour before 1st ethereal?

Anyway I said it before psi gift is calculated when testing, maybe at start of test or at end but during the testing not on soldier generation.

Also that being said I have noticed that the reward soldiers seem to have a lot more will (so better psi candidates), maybe because of not being critically wounded or any other ways of losing will.

[Neonivek]

You got ghost armour before 1st ethereal?

I had pretty much all my research done before the 1st ethereal... and I was rushing things.

Anyway I said it before psi gift is calculated when testing, maybe at start of test or at end but during the testing not on soldier generation

Well yeah that is because... well

Heavy Spoilers

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The aliens are only invading to force you to evolve and unlock your full psychic potential for no real reason except that something "bad" is going to happen in the future or something we don't really know. Obviously if psychic potential was set then they would have came peacefully.

I personally dislike the story... but I guess they wanted to make room for the possible sequel. While I am one of the few people who thinks this I would have rather the aliens be more ambiguous with less reasoning behind what they did.

Then again I am probably also one of the few people who disliked the final missions too and actually thought one person's idea of having the "final mission" actually be a series of missions where you sabatage the alien UFO to be genius.

So I have a theory on this game

Outsiders never existed!

And you cannot even prove me wrong!

[Sensei]

As far as I could tell,

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The aliens wanted the humans as another race for their conglomerate, specifically for their psionic powers, to fulfill THE PURPOSE. Furthermore the entire invasion was led by a few exiles, I think? If I'm interpreting correctly, the elite ethereal you fought was exiled because his mind powers weren't good enough. Or I might not be remember his words correctly and he's just talking about some ethereals who didn't have the gift.

[Neonivek]

As far as I could tell,

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The aliens wanted the humans as another race for their conglomerate, specifically for their psionic powers, to fulfill THE PURPOSE. Furthermore the entire invasion was led by a few exiles, I think? If I'm interpreting correctly, the elite ethereal you fought was exiled because his mind powers weren't good enough. Or I might not be remember his words correctly and he's just talking about some ethereals who didn't have the gift.

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Well no, remember every single race they have in their "Conglomerate" was one they thought could possess the gift (Except possibly Mutons, but even the Crysalids had the possibility of psychic potential). Most of which who failed were put to other uses.

They were at least hopeful humans could have both psionic potential and have a non-fragile and weak body.... but their ultimate goal was a being that could go beyond and possess a special gift that even they do not possess.

Mind you a lot of their reasoning was weak.

Also that Etherial wasn't the "Exile" the exile I believe were the ones in the pods. The Etherials that didn't have psionics likely. My best guess as to why they shown that is to show why the humans couldn't just surrender. Afterall the Etherials were welcoming them into the fold. It was because the Etherials would have mistreated the rest of humanity.

Still I have no idea what the Etherials were afraid of. It is possible it is the aliens from Apocolips.

Or possibly the Outsiders. It would explain why there was only ONE outsider in the entire game.

Also Outsiders don't exist! OOoOoOooo!

Mind you on a more serious note... Given the game and its ending... The Outsider may actually be a plothole.

[Untouchable]

It seems the Sectopod failed a spot check. I honestly didn't expect it to just stop right next to my soldier while ignoring the clearly visible soldiers that it walked past.


On a completely unrelated note, I love the Ghost Armour.

[EnigmaticHat]

You know that fallen highway overpass there's an escort mission on?  That can come up as a terror mission.  And its a NIGHTMARE.  I came in with reduced equipment because some of my soldiers were apparently stuffed into the

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psi testing pods

while still wearing their titan armor and plasma rifles.  A sectopod stood at the top of a hill, with only one way up and a large coverless slope in between us and it, and blasted my

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psychic

colonel into critical condition without playing a reveal animation (?!?!).  The previous turn a heavy floater launched onto an inaccessible part of the map that could overlook the entire squad and that was opposite the sectopod so that there was literally no cover that would protect against both of them.  On top of that, it was very difficult to tell where the heavy floater could be hit from.

Suffice to say, there was only one survivor.  Two colonels bled out, the last of which had been with us from the beginning and would have survived if our sniper hadn't missed a 74% shot.  The game really had it out for me, there was no safe way to reach the sectopod and literally no way to reach the heavy floater, running away wasn't an option and on top of that both these high damage enemies were on elevated positions on two sides of the squad.

[Urist McSpike]

Yeah, your troops should have their equipment removed when they're unavailable for missions, like when they go to the hospital.  Actually, one of the better suggestions I saw was to have everything removed after missions, with the ability to save loadouts - or at the very least, a one-click "un-equip all" button.

But I think I'm done playing for now, until they get another patch out.  I've caught the "Eternally Wounded" bug in action - have a save showing two soldiers wounded with 3 & 4 days left, and after letting the game run for 4 days, they are both just "Wounded".  It's as if the game skips letting them out of the hospital, and then they're stuck forever.

[Rince Wind]

You can still remove all equipment when your soldiers are not available via the barracks.

[Urist McSpike]

You can still remove all equipment when your soldiers are not available via the barracks.

Not (I think) when they are in

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psi training

[GlyphGryph]

Anyone want to try some multiplayer?

[Rince Wind]

You can still remove all equipment when your soldiers are not available via the barracks.

Not (I think) when they are in

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psi training

Yes, you can. I did it myself, because I put them in that with gear myself.