Reever

It's because you are dropped into the combat zone by drop pods from the airbourne Valkyrie. Those marks indicate the drop pods i assume. (btw would be really really cool if they "looked" like open drop pods and provided some instant cover) I would think that considering the Valkyrie is the top of the line dropship it would be able to land and pick you up as well. Logically it would be doing that after a mission anyways. This is too much i know, but having some cut scenes of dropping into the CZ from different craft would be nice too.

Praetors are in Battleships and Large base. As dpelectric said, on battleships they sometimes appear as a shadow on the ground.. though unlike him i thought they had stealth abilities from their psi powers lol ... funny to find out that's a bug.

My first post though i have been through the game a couple of times. I'd like to post the following bugs with version 22...please excuse if they have been mentioned already. -Singularity Torpedo has no singularity core cost when building -Sheild bearing, sentinal suit wearing, flying troops face one direction regardles of thier movement. - No GFX to show weapon when a Predator suit wearing troop equips an alien Plasma Cannon. - Not getting Alenium loot report for completing alien base attack by command centre capture. - Lock-up loop when a heavy weapon weilding troop does reaction fire, even if they have no weapon or ammo. -Civilian NPCs still entering Battleship craft via teleporters. Also about Psychic Attacks... well they just seem far too often and effective without LoS. My workaround was to place the troops weapon in backpack after firing every turn which is tedious. Now i won't do bases or battleships because there are no psychic defence items, and you can never stop the mind controlling until you reach the last room. I have actually raised an whole new 8 man team picked only with Bravery 62+ starting stats to see if by Commander rank they may have enough Bravery to withstand the mind controlling. It's a bit harsh at the moment.