What to do when you break the stairs?

We've all broken the stairs at least 5 times. So what I propose is a portable ladder. It is lost when the mission is over. Takes 20 ap to set down. 30ap to throw and another 10ap every 1 height. And maybe there is a chance it will fall?

Why would you throw the ladder? (Hmm I have a feeling my language skills are lacking here. Is that what you call it when you lean the ladder against an object/building you want to scale?) and how are you breaking the stairs? missiles? grenades? gunfire? or is it a bug that occurs when you try to use them'?

Wouldn't the planned mantling feature make this unnecessary?

No need for a ladder if your troops can climb up a single level, unless the ladder reaches more than a single floor of course.

I was assuming a rope ladder when throwing was suggested, you would need to get it into position somehow.

Dang sleep deprivation. Time to clarify. So whenever my troops throw a grenade I want to destroy everything except stairs. Once I had an alien stuck upstairs I had to w8 5 turn for the game to end it was miserable. And I imagine it will only get worse when plasma/laser guns arrive.

As for throwing the ladder it would be a rope ladder you could throw it to the top of a building to gain an advantage over enemies and increase you Los safly.

Hope this helps.

in the next update you should be able to destroy buildings

Ok, I'm missing something. I've seen the stairs in buildings, but when I instructed my Xenonaut to move onto them, he "disappeared" into the stairway sprite. So I thought, ah well, it's just for looks.

Also, when I press the 1st level button (2nd level for those nations who don't start floor level count at 0) my view of the building doesn't really change - admittedly I've only tried this outside.

*edit* your destructible buildings comment made me think about something: what happens when you shoot out ALL the ground level walls of a building?

In the net update the. Uilding will fall. MWAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHA! Ehhh a ladder sounds fun but owell

Once you shoot a given % of walls in the comming patch(S) the building will collapse all floors above the destroyed walls and killing anyone or anything luckly enough to be monging it in there.

Oh that sounds nice! Seems I haven't reached the "dev blog/upcoming" section yet.

This site navigates way too slow for my info hunger.

Stairs should probably (imo) have a load-bearing property and reduce the amount of walls you need to shoot out. Not for realism but for gameplay mechanic reason,s ( because it is annoying to screw yourself, and having to waste so much ammo to get that alien above your current floor ).

Oh that sounds nice! Seems I haven't reached the "dev blog/upcoming" section yet.

This site navigates way too slow for my info hunger.

I'm going back to Xcom UFO to find out sectiods better stay in the franking saucer....

No need for a ladder if your troops can climb up a single level

So if you manage to blow up the stairs in a building you will still be able to climb up/down a level then?

That was a planned feature, don't know if it is still on the board though.

At least once you have the jump armour you should be able to poke holes in the wall and hop straight through.

This is where an incendiary grenade/flamethrower is your friend - just toast the building and let the cowardly alien scum burn!