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[Sharp]

Thin men are evil bastards though, even if you get them later on in council missions there will be dozens of them, always overwatching from hard-cover and sniping off your guys, and the moment you try and flank one you spot 6 more.

Of course with the 'not-created equally' 2nd wave option you can get some 80 aim rookie/squaddies, pop a scope on and a light plasma rifle and you have decent odds at taking out thin-men behind hard cover, with that set-up I would have most of the other members of the squad be based to support the 1 shooter and have lots of medkits to heal up any damage that you try and trade.

I have a pretty decent squad and still thin-men can be annoying, not fatal anymore but causing a few injuries.

XCOM is pretty damn buggy though, and even though they "fixed" the abductor roof glitch there are still pathfinding problems, hilariously while on the roof of the abductor.

[Parsely]

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I was playing the final mission, and I had half my team through the indestructible corridor just before the Uber-Overseer (they honestly couldn't come up with a better name for it? ._.). The game autosaved at that point (I was playing Classic, without Ironman on) and I finished getting my guys into the room. Naturally my entire team gets wiped out, as this is the first playthrough in which I've ever even made it past the first couple months, so I revert back to my autosave. I'm now incapable of moving the trooper in the immediate center of the one-tile corridor, since the game decided I'm not allowed to select him anymore, even after subsequent turns, which means I've now my team is effectively cut in half, and I've only got two soldiers with which to fight three damn overseers, plus Elite Mutons.

I have no other saves from this playthrough.

I hate this game.

[Sharp]

Don't you get the option to restart the mission on a team wipe without Ironman? Just psi-rift your own team.

[Tarran]

If anyone has a problem with saves... turn on autosave in the options.

[Nadaka]

Damn it. After spending several days building up my colonel supply, The assault on the overseer ship fared spectacularly badly.

Ran around a corner and found myself face to face with a sectopod, smashed it with a rocket for half its health... and the wall next to it  falls over to reveal... another sectopod, 2 or 3 elite mutons, a berzerker, and the ethereal... Then a flight of 3 armored flyers blast through a nearby door into flanking positions.

In 1 round, I had 4 dead soldiers, and one mind controlled sniper playing tag with my only remaining psionic heavy. I managed to haul ass to the extraction point and regained control of the sniper as well. They both made it off the map with 1 and 3 health respectively.

The mission was a failure.

[Sharp]

Yeah, when doing ship fights explosions in are always dangerous.

Althought whats annoying is Sectopod being spotted and somehow teleporting to other side of map, every 4 turns it's artillery barrage until I find the bastard.

[Tarran]

Wow, I had known about the teleportation of enemies before, but I never knew it was so bad. Sure, teleportation into the middle of my troops and all, but... this is worse.

I threw a battlescanner and found a group of sectoids. Well, they fumbled around the same general area in front of my troops for several turns until...

POOF, they're magically BEHIND MY TROOPS. On the exact opposite side of the map. Somehow, they managed to sneak past 5 killer humans and walk three times as far as an Xcom operative can dash. In one turn. And my guys knew they were there. They didn't even activate either. What, did they mess with my the minds of my guys or something?

"We do not exist. We are not walking past you. There are still two sectoids over there. Ignore us. Obey."

[Parsely]

Why is it that I have never encountered this supposed 'teleporting' glitch?

[Tarran]

Lucky, perhaps. My first few games I don't think I've ever seen aliens teleporting into the middle of my troops. This game I've seen it at least twice.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It mostly happens when you have a tiny bit of fog of war in between all of your troops. Enemies can spawn inside any fog of war, no matter how improbable.

[majikero]

How can a sectopod teleport inside my formation of troops within overwatch distance of each other? I doubt it's the fog of war in the middle.

[Parsely]

It mostly happens when you have a tiny bit of fog of war in between all of your troops. Enemies can spawn inside any fog of war, no matter how improbable.

Well that explains it. I always keep my men uber-close to each other since I finished that impossible playthrough. :/

[Tarran]

ARGH CANADA. YOU HAVE LESS BACKBONE THAN ARGENTINA. Look, you're one flipping country away from the biggest baddest alien killing organization in the world, who are based in a country which is as far as I know are one of the best friends you have. Argentina is an entire continent away. If you break before they do then that says things about your sense of commitment.

Now I'm going to have a black hole right over my base for the rest of the game. Grrrr.

[Soadreqm]

The way I finished the final mission in my previous (normal ironman) game was a single barrage of heavy plasma followed by a lucky sniper headshot from the far side of the corridor. Well, that was on my second try, since my squad got wiped the first time. At that point, I was getting kind of tired of the last mission, so it was really a very nice turn of events.

[Nadaka]

The final scene of the final mission is actually really easy to take down in a single round if you have 2 fusion rockets and 2 teamsight snipers, and 1 other guy with ghost armor. If you can ghost for more than a round, you can get through with less heavy beyond visual range artillery and still take no damage.