TornadoADV

4th Tier is Gauss Weaponry (MAG).

That sounds good, now, is it everytime armor completely stops any damage? Otherwise, I could see this making people not happy with their mid range armor being made worthless. (If armor degraded everytime it was hit, not everytime it completely stopped any damage at all.)

I guess that means no Xenonaut protection for them!

This is a minor, but rather important quibble I have right now. Unlike the Skyranger, the Chinook doesn't have global range, which means in the first couple of months, there is a very high likelyhood that a Terror Site will pop-up in a place you can't respond to at all and it costs you a ton of goodwill from the funding countries. This can happen sometimes 4 times in a row. With the chance for air interception now by hostile alien fighters, Chinooks should be given global range and use the reason of in-flight refueling or stopping in airports or FOBs to refuel. If a player is willing to risk their team in a slow helo with no escort, that should be the chance they take.

You'd be surprised what constitutes a "battlefield repair" these days!

MAG = Magnetic Acceleration Gun AKA Gauss Weaponry? Would explain the Hyper-velocity missile as well, taking default weapons and making them speedy as all heck. (And we all know that speed = energy!)

I always find it amazing how the smaller UFOs are able to operate over North America, Europe or the USSR without being utterly obliterated by ground based SAMs from said country's militarys. This IS 1979, hell the USSR should be a bastion against UFOs that casually fly into it's airspace.

Put the grenades you want to use on your belt, they'll show up in the grenade slots next to your weapon box and you can use them for less AP then if you had them in your backpack.

Perhaps medals could also count towards promotion points? (since if they change things other then bravery, it get's kinda hard to balance. Though I could see the Crimson Heart adding a small health bonus and Gallantry medals adding more TUs)

That's why it would go to a art screen explaining that all aliens had died on impact and recovery operations were now underway and then go to the mission successful screen.

I agree with the chance for all aliens to die on impact, which would be much easier with smaller UFOs naturally. Perhaps have some sort of screen that pops up saying that after a quick recon, your squad found no presence of live aliens in the area and have begun clean-up.