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[Silfurdreki]

Speaking of Portent, does it repeat?  I skipped it because of all the horror stories I'd heard, figuring it would recur like Slingshot, but I haven't seen it again.  If I don't finish Portent is Progeny locked off?

I don't think so. I failed it on my successful run (i.e. some died others ran back to skyranger) and the mission never showed again. Neither did the follow-up missions. I don't know if it comes back if you refuse the mission, but I would assume not.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Because it's childish and false?

When has that ever impeded humor?

[Remalle]

Because it's childish and false?

When has that ever impeded humor?

Ever since "humour" started listing "funny" as a requirement.

[forsaken1111]

Oh god lighten up. It was funny.

[Mageziya]

On the subject of Country requests for tech and what not, here is something I wrote almost exactly a year ago:

Had an interesting council nation prompt today, from Germany, requesting a Sectopod wreck. Reason? To rebuild and re-purpose it 'reduce' the local panic, for 'defensive purposes, of course.' . According to the prompt after complying and reading the news bar afterwards, they were successful.

This makes me wonder, if they can restore a Sectopod into functioning condition, why are we stuck with crappy S.H.I.V.s?

This was before EW was announced and before I learned SHIVs were apparently good before EW.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I still want a Sectopod. Or, even better, a full alien squad in campaign.

[EnigmaticHat]

I want a sectoid as a wacky team pet.

[umiman]

On the subject of Country requests for tech and what not, here is something I wrote almost exactly a year ago:

Had an interesting council nation prompt today, from Germany, requesting a Sectopod wreck. Reason? To rebuild and re-purpose it 'reduce' the local panic, for 'defensive purposes, of course.' . According to the prompt after complying and reading the news bar afterwards, they were successful.

This makes me wonder, if they can restore a Sectopod into functioning condition, why are we stuck with crappy S.H.I.V.s?

This was before EW was announced and before I learned SHIVs were apparently good before EW.

They probably just put their own crappy robotics inside of it.

So it looked like a Sectopod but it couldn't do anything beyond make noise or something like that.

[WillowLuman]

Sectopods are superior to SHIV's in only one respect...

[My Name is Immaterial]

They have a metric shirt ton of health and can fire twice in one turn and have an APE attack?

[Darkening Kaos]

That is a lot of light plasma. You must capture aliens a lot more often than I do, since I almost never have enough plasma until rather late in the game.

   The only plasma weapons I have to build are the sniper rifles, everything else is captured and, at present, I'm only lacking in the pistol department, so I have been trying to capture sectoids lately, but the little buggers are so damned squishy.
    I also had a request from the Germans for 6 EXALT Sniper Rifles, I think I only ever got two before they went laser, so I was never able to fulfill that one - apparently they wanted to infiltrate EXALT and needed their covert operatives to get used to the weapons.
    It also helps that for this run, I have limited myself to only 13 troops, any personell acquired as reward/enticement to attempt any given mission are immediately sacked - they are always subpar anyway.  I did a council mission last night where the reward was 160-ish credits, panic reduction and a Heavy at rank Major.  Soldier sucked so sacked.

[Mephansteras]

That is a lot of light plasma. You must capture aliens a lot more often than I do, since I almost never have enough plasma until rather late in the game.

   The only plasma weapons I have to build are the sniper rifles, everything else is captured and, at present, I'm only lacking in the pistol department, so I have been trying to capture sectoids lately, but the little buggers are so damned squishy.
    I also had a request from the Germans for 6 EXALT Sniper Rifles, I think I only ever got two before they went laser, so I was never able to fulfill that one - apparently they wanted to infiltrate EXALT and needed their covert operatives to get used to the weapons.
    It also helps that for this run, I have limited myself to only 13 troops, any personell acquired as reward/enticement to attempt any given mission are immediately sacked - they are always subpar anyway.  I did a council mission last night where the reward was 160-ish credits, panic reduction and a Heavy at rank Major.  Soldier sucked so sacked.

What difficulty are you playing on?

I play Classic only, which is tough enough for me that I tend to play everything very safe. Downside is that capturing aliens is only done under careful situations or when an easy opportunity pops up.

[Darkening Kaos]

    I'm playing on normal, but only with four personnel on the main team so it is artifically harder - I found that out last night when my team faced a sectopod last night, nerve-racking battle that lasted for twenty minutes as I attempted to kite the thing to death.  With the Assault doing 1 or two points damage each turn, plasma wielding support doing three points max, often less.  Sniper unleashing a disable weapon when possible, headshots or reloading.  MEC Trooper being fucking useless missing with the railgun more often than hitting and even when a shot connects it does only up to five damage.

[umiman]

Why could you only do 1 - 2 damage?

[WillowLuman]

Damage against sectopods is halved from all sources, and it sounds like he's using ballistics.