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if I get shot and hobbes is the only available medic... please just kill me as for the original post.... you can mind control all aliens, your ability to mind control them depends on your soldier's psi skill and strength and your target's skill and strength. there is also a factor of range, among other things that infulance the result the actual formula Attack Strength (AS) = (Psi Strength * Psi Skill / 50) - (Distance / 2) + Random Number(0 to 55) Defense Strength (DS) = Psi Strength + (Psi Skill / 5 ) + Difficulty when it comes to 4 section enemies (such as cyberdisks and sectopods) they will shoot the mind controled section based on reaction fire. when controlling a 4 section enemy you want to target the NW corner. when done right you can MC each section in turn allowing you to move the unit 4 times the easiest 4 section unit to control is the reaper as it will not attack the other sections

the straingest thing i ever witnessed ever was this weekend. I was finishing off and attacking cydonia. so after landing and quickly wiping out the sectoids on the surface without a single casuilty (who would have guessed 2 hovertank launchers and 2 psi troopers could be so devistating to the enemy). anyway long story short i decend into the base. my troops quickly secured the lift and surrounding rooms while my psi troopers took control of of a most of the enemy encountered including a chryssalid almost as soon as the turn ended a seccond chryssalid popped up from around a corner and attacked my pet chryssalid it was kind of funny watching them fighting though it was intresting to learn that they can't zombifie each other

ok i know this may be considered necromancey given this topic is almost 10 months old but I couldn't resist. my best casuilty would had to have been dmitriy asimov. he was one of 10 soldiers i had from the start of the game in a squad i nicknamed the last chancers. all 10 members survived the entire game while members of my seccond squad stationed in my other base tended to die quite often so as you can imagine by the time I was assaulting the alien dimension my squad was one group of really tough guys (and gals) any way to cut a long story short we got to the final mission where you have to distroy the dimensional gates. my squad equipped with xcom armour and toxin C, vortex mines and alien gas were tearing through any resistance that got in their way and distroying all the generators. unfortunatly mr asimov who was commanding one section of 5 troopers while my commander lead the other around the other side got hit my a missile and somehow got stuck to the ground just as his team destroyed the last generator. so following orders my team quickly bugged out but mr asimov who was some how decided to detonate a vortex mine to help clear what was trapping him (it was the only explosive he had) not only did he survive the blast (which cleared the ground) but he was still stuck so i figured what the heck i'll have him make a last stand. he quickly dispatched 3 skeletoids and a psimorph in the matter of secconds when someone launched one of those darn entropy pods at him. to my amazement he was still alive and continued to pick off a pair of megaspawns, 2 more skeletoids and wound a psimorph. then I see a vortex mine flying over from one side and I'm thinking it's all over. but after the explosion clears asimov is still standing there unscathed and still with a bit of power in his disruptor shield which finally goes down after soaking up a hit from a missile and 2 devistator beams. quickly turning to where this new attack came from asimov then proceded to pick off 2 more skeletoids before running out of ammo. luckly i always make a point of packing a devistator beam for such instances and quickly used it to pick off one more skeletoid. next thing I know I got 2 entropy pods heading my way and to my supprise asimov shrugs them off without a scratch so i figure I'll give them a chance and dropped all my armour before laying into the next wave of aliens that came out of that pit. and what do you know they actually missed with their missile launchers and asimov is just standing there defient of everything the aliens throw at him while still being unable to run so picks off another 2 megaspawns when a lowly unconsious skeletoid who had been knocked out earlier in the mission wakes up behind him and shots him in the back with an entropy pod killing him instantly there he was the ultimate soldier with over 100 misions under his belt and around 230 kills who had shrugged off everything throwen at him only to be picked off from behind by a half dead skeletoid

ah well it was worth a shot. I guess the only real option would be to build an entire game from scratch (way beyond me at this point)

I've been playing about with a few diffrent x-com editors over the past few months but none of them seem to be able to do what I need (or I can't work out how to). my main problem is, is there any way to add extra weapons to x-com for example add a SMG or grenade launcher or some such device. i noticed a few editiors out there allow you to chainge weapon names, ammo types, rates of fire, accuracy ect. but don't allow for adding extra items to the game. basically it comes from a story i started writing based on X-com (I won't go into detail) but long story short x-com losing war, X-com personal think up how to maximise resources and develop new equipment. anyway I thought to my self while playing wouldn't it be cool to be able to play with new technology and change the flavour of the game and was able to edit the ingame weapons to make new weapons but they couldn't be used alongside the original weapons. so does anyone have any idea on how to add extra items into the games or know of editors that can do this? if there is no way. ah well I guess I'll just have to resort to playing with just my modified weapon set without the original weapons

if only it were true. I was actually just about to run off and look it up on imdb.com until i realised what was going on lol though talking of an X-com movie I think us x-com fans should make our own. i got dibs on playing X-com soldier#2 lol *wanders off to practice with a heavy plasma in one hand and a blaster launcher in the other*