Grimnoch

Do you think reapers might be scared of hights? I am. But I don't bite through metal.

Well, if I were a zombie, I probably wouldn't want to move around too much either.

I think the scoring system for captured aliens is mistaken. I've never gotten many points for captured aliens, especially soldiers and terrorists. I'm pretty sure I've even gotten 0 points before on reapers or chryssalids. To check, I let a muton terror ship land, and captured 4 live aliens. I got 36 points for them...thats less than 10 each. This is on the playstation version, but I think its the same elsewhere(been a long time since I played it on pc).

Thats not cabbage, its pod people! Run!

I have missed with a blaster bomb with the two points being only 3 squares apart. Despite this precaution I still wound up hitting the wall and blowing up a marine(a good one too). Still, indoors I think it is best if all 10 markers are used in short succession to prevent 'pulling a snakeman' and killing your own man.

I made a short page for the Abductor. I didn't know how to link to a certain part of a page for the Alien Missions, since they're all listed on one page. Either way, its there now. I didn't have the official description given by engineers in game, will add that later.

I always feel guilty blowing up barns and try not to. What if some old farmers antique can collection is in there or something?

Just last night I had some floaters hiding out in a barn(the type with stairs to the roof). Something seemed a little fishy about the staircase, so I had my guy on the ground sit tight while another flew around back. He looked in the window, and sure enough, not one but two of them were there waiting for my ground crew. A quick alien grenade through the window and it was all over. However, I still hold that terror missions do something screwy to floater AI. Its like they get an adrenaline rush and can't think straight.

I love floaters. They're so dumb! I'll be all like, oh man, another terror mission? These sectoids are wearing me out! Then I see a reaper and I'm like yes! Floaters! Its like getting the coin room in mario. They'll be floating around, hunting for civilians, and then pass right by one of my soldiers. BLAM! One floater down. Then I'll see another one get all excited and try to shoot some red haired girl on the second floor with a stun launcher, but of course he'll miss and just blow himself up. Another free medic for research. Then some floater comes along acting all tough, so he comes floating along, then throws a grenade right you, but instead it just bounces off a gas tank and he blows himself up too. I'm going to start a new dance called the floater.