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You mean besides then giving that shinobi an action with command, using reaper, and then wiping out said pod of course.

Ok... am I the only one who basically completely ditched meat bags after getting the suppression upgrade for the shivs?

Because... all shiv squads were kind of silly strong in my experience.

Hmm... super secret critic research facilty gets attacked... aliens have forces in the area that they rush there... if you aren't gone before they arrive things get much much harder. Sounds about right to me. Also... as an aside... this sort of thing is where breaching charges can come in handy. Sta...

That's possible. I tend to prefer the, it's all series of simulations run by the commander theory. Where the commander being an alien computer (or a psionic being that acts as such) being tasked to analyze alien battle plans for weaknesses. The individual games define the base parameters for a possi...

Honestly, it depends on how many particularly nasty critters are in the enemy forces. But in general, before sectoid commanders come into play... I'll run them at 0% without a second thought. Once they do... well... when you see 50 (hyperbole) zombies raise from off screen... you know you're in trou...

If you're using the hunker down mod, it allows hunkering (read cowering) in the open so you aren't completely screwed if an archer mech blows up your cover. Not the case. Ah... I thought it did... On the other hand... I do on occasion lose track of which mods I've further modified that's probably t...

It's rare, but stun lancers can knock you unconscious. It's most common with shaken and other low will soldiers but it can happen to anyone. I restarted for 1.1, was doing a bit of corpse famring (basically doing those supply raids you have like 3 hours to prepare for which end up with 50 troopers e...

I find the story missions kind of tedious so I don't include them. Bad bit is that the Viper kinda shows up at the worst possible times. First campaign, he popped up in the avenger shot down mission, which ended that campaign. 2nd time he popped up in a swarming facility destruction mission. Which a...

If you're using the hunker down mod, it allows hunkering (read cowering) in the open so you aren't completely screwed if an archer mech blows up your cover.

Ok, makes sense... Though In my defense, one of the drones I killed landed on the back of one of the trucks... Technically they would have had to kick it off.. :) Didn't have the time to check it for homing beacons. I mean they've got shape shifting goo critters so a homing beacon in their robots a...

Since it does fairly minimal damage, you can use it to protect units that end up grazing a critical shot and would otherwise end up screwed. Just revive them next round if you need to move them. Also since I tend to run a mind shield on an assault or shinobi that is going to be pretty far forward or...

What I wanna know is why I can't chuck a sensor ball at any new recruits to make sure they aren't faceless.

Mine are all specialists because every single squad has a healer focused specialist no matter the mission.

Also... they're kinda my go to class for training meh rookies because they're very useful stationed in havens so I've always got a few extra lying around.

I used a shinobi, 2 gunners with the +1 tile suppression upgrade, and 2 specialists Gunners suppressed and destroyed cover, specialists overwatched, aided, etc, and shinobi stabbed the aliens in the face many many times on the way to the terminal. Doubt that'd work where I am now though considering ...

Pretty sure that's working as intended.

However... if you can hold out against the first big push you can usually move a couple shinobi to the EMP and start whacking it to death.

What I want to know is why I can't just chuck a sensor ball at any new recruits to make sure they aren't faceless.

I mean I have dozens of drone wrecks sitting around... and sensor balls aren't that expensive...

Rookies... rookies... not ringing a bell...

Oh... you mean disposable overwatch removal devices? Those things you use when flash bangs are too precious to waste?

Seriously though, looking forward to the changes.