Ki-tat Chung

Haha, that happened to me once. The guy was poisoned, and one turn away from reaching the LZ... and the poison wore off! Sooooo lucky that it only lasted two turns, since I've found it usually lasts for around three turns.

Oh oh, what's his name??

omw.

Teehee, they want us to touch their device...

Problem is, you still can't choose their class. I suppose it does mean you can screen your recruits, but it's still a costly endeavour.

"Hey Mack, you got that bug in your sights?" "Yeah man, time to restock our pantry!"

Actually, that is one of my biggest gripes with SHIVs: soldiers can't get XP. At least in the original, your squad wasn't limited to 4-6 units, so tanks weren't as limiting.

Does it go well with Lobster?

I'm still a little scarred from my attempts at Impossible. It was right after I finished my first Normal game. I think it was something like three or four losses, and half a dozen restarts. When I finish my current Classic game, I'll have to decide between CI or regular Impossible... or maybe I'll give it a rest and play some original UFO for a bit.

I find in RT, battles are a hell of a lot more frantic and messy. You end up relying on your soldier's reaction more often than not, whereas in TB you actively choose when to fire. This means ammo is quite hard to manage, as it flies thick and fast. One of the annoyances, as an aside, is freaking friendly fire! If my squad is moving in a tight formation (which they often do), I have to micromanage my units up front to go prone and/or crouch. Having a friendly shoot a devastator into the back of your head is not a fun way to die. =\

Sounds about right. I played a SH game about two months ago before the new XCOM, and I hired a hybrid right at the start of the game on the first week. Checking for new recruits every day, I never managed to hire another hybrid, nor a single android. Playing on SU, throughout most of the game, funds were too tight to afford payouts and by end game, I had already lost interest in the game itself to care enough to actually pay organisations out. The last thing I remember doing was actually long range bombardment on CoS and Diablo (100% infiltration) whilst flying near Transtellar buildings, and trying to get them to hit Transtellar. It certainly was fun venting out on another organisation, and the relations tab suddenly became much more interesting. If you want to have a more empirical test, you could use Midnight X-Com Editor to set organisation relations manually, though doing an investigation is a pretty good way to just tip the scales.

Lots of old timers crawling out of the woodwork, myself included =]

If the base radar/sonar facilities work every half hour by percentage, how do the radar/sonar work on craft? I do sometimes send out craft to areas that have high alien activity, but usually with no success. Might help if I know exactly how the mechanism works.

The XCOM Facebook page posted a German fan film parody of the new XCOM, which is quite a laugh. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=449402621768837

What really?? Damn, that's a bit sad, though understandable. TBH I find I use ghost for the bonus crit chance more than the actual invisibility per se.

Snapshot just allows you to use the rifle after moving, as the regular build doesn't allow you to shoot after moving without abusing some bugs. The snapshot -20% accuracy penalty goes away when you switch to pistol. I've checked out the patch, and the Snap shot/Double tap bug is still there, which is damn annoying.

I love Double Tap too, but when used in conjunction with the broken Snapshot debuff, meant that your second shot always had -20% accuracy.

Bumped into the interceptor bug last night. I think it only occurs when you launch satellites near the end of the month, about a week or two before. The satellites come online just before the game throws three abductors at you, which eventually become abduction sites. Unfortunately, I only had one interceptor in each continent, so I couldn't take the UFOs down. Would've been interesting to let only one or two UFOs through, and see if the abduction sites become less than three. I found the work around was to ignore all the UFOs, and send interceptors to each UFO individually. Well, I'm glad they fixed it =] The thing I cared about most is fixing the snapshot bug. I tried giving it to my sniper in my second playthrough, and he's become my highest ranking officer... was extremely annoyed that the accuracy pentalty came into effect whether you moved or not. Kills overwatch, and makes double tap next to useless. I don't think they've fixed the Hunker Down shortcut key yet though.

The Sectopod certainly does make an appearance, and it's damn deadly!

Maybe the calculations are wrong, but that was just a stab in the dark anyway. The game itself says that the higher your will, the greater the chance of your soldier being psi capable. So unless they're lying and there's actually a hidden psi stat somewhere, that's the simplest theory. On average, I've found my troops to be roughly 10-15% psi capable, if that's worth anything.

Maybe it's a chance thing, just like shot accuracy percentage? Could be something as simple as will/1000, so having 100 will gives you 10% chance?

Are you sure the scanner didn't get stuck on the ceiling or the door frame? I throw scanners through doors quite often, and I had that happen to me once, real annoying! I suppose being able to throw things through UFO doors is in and of itself a bit of a bug though... This is all related to the fact that EU'12 uses the same random seed state. This is a conscious descision made by the designers, see here for a bit of a break down. So actually, things are (psudo-)random, its just not something that becomes obvious until you start abusing reloads.

Ditto, minus the magic bus Except right now I'm sitting at constant three rookies, and a rotating vet. Most of my squad keeps getting wiped out... gotta stop playing so aggressively, still not used to the change in difficulty moving up from normal

Nice insight. I think Uber is just a pansy getting whipped.

Back on my first play though (still haven't gotten around to my second yet, in the middle of an Apoc play though), I skipped the Carapace and went straight from the Skeleton and indeed found the grappling hook quite useful. Basically whenever there was higher ground and ledges, I would always check to see if it was more Action Point economical to grapple or to walk. By the way, you can grapple to same height and lower height ledges, not just to ledges above you. Which is useful if say, you want to grapple across a gap.