new favorite victory screen You soak those bullets Sectopod, good giant robot. I then decided to take a break and play Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots. Best part, when I got bored I just shot them both!
So, finally gave in, got this game a few very long days ago. Lost sleep, beat it. Satisfied. (Now I need to go through and do it on Commander difficulty. XD) Addendum: Rather, Commander Ironman, because I hate myself. (At this stage, dunno if that's a good idea... worst case I lose horribly or run out of patience. Heh.) Correction to the correction: Legend Ironman. XD
Yea I'm doing commander ironman also. Also, fuck some of the random ass shit in this game. I was doing a VIP rescue, the VIPs in a van. I'm fighting a squad of 3, about 1.5 screens away from the van, when somehow, I fucking spot him through the windshield and 'activate' him. Now, since he's under my control, he magicfuckingly sees the 6 other enemies parked behind the van. I say magicfuckingly because the doors were closed and there were NO FUCKING WINDOWS. So now I'm in my ironman campaign fighting about 9 baddies on my 2nd fucking mission with 4 squaddies and a VIP who is literally stuck right next to all of them because he has magic X ray vision. Then, somehow still seeing the VIP, the enemies start shooting him through solid walls. Thankfully missed him, but blew up all his cover so now he's running toward EVAC, when reinforcements come in the perfect position to sandwich me between them and the existing troopers. WTF XCOM. I rage quit, I'll get back to it at some point to see if its salvageable.
yeah, the LOS issues in some circumstances are rather irritating, one of the major reasons I am not terribly thrilled with the idea of not being able to save in case of fubar.
yeah i hate the ones where the vip you have to rescue is in a van. one of those i fired one grenade which destroyed only the very back of the van (didn't injure vip) another nade that same round in the exact same spot somehow killed the VIP even though he wasn't in the blast zone at all.
Borg VIP extraction: "Stand still buddy, I'm gonna blow up the van you're in to get you out of there." "Are...are you sure? I mean, the door handle is right here..." "Hey, which fucking one of us needs to be rescued and which one has a gun? Sit down, hold on and watch this." "JESUS FUCK! YOU"RE SUPPOSED TO BE SAVING ME! I MIGHT BE SAFER WITH THE ALIENS!" *second grenade* "No clue what happened Central. I think the aliens got to him first."
Well there was an archon and viper right next to vans door thus the grenades. Also a gatekeeper. Actually i think it was the gatekeeper dying that killed the VIP not either of the grenades.
I shit you not I saw the notifcation that a new response had been added while I was in the process of writing about how I have never once opened a VIP's cell/van door. I always blew a hole in the wall with grenades, missiles, or shredstorm cannons. Only accidentally killed the VIP once.
totally my fault. wait am i the new blue? because that asshat hasn't been around in like a year. or 2. also i've been wondering why doesn't the whole squad go back into concealment if you have killed the current enemy patrol. i don't mean right away but wouldn't it make sense if you killed the group of 3 you ran into and if you do not go back into combat for say 2-3 turns the whole squad goes back into concealment?
They only turn the security cameras on when a squad actually spots someone. The aliens are trying to go green and save some electricity. Every watt they save this way means another nanosecond of operation time for the sectopods.
Yeah, so that got me trying to find images of the tentacle-covered things from the last Star Wars film... Spoiler: I really should've seen the NSFW coming...
