svidangel

Actually, on the topic of grenades... 1. Are flashbangs actually working? I have yet to cause any suppression with them. 2. If they do work, 6-8 square range would be terrible, both for them and for smoke grenades. May as well give soldiers an explosive with 4 square radius and let them throw it 2 squares. I wonder if once the aliens start using grenades they will be able to throw them to the chinook from their UFO enterance....

Correct, none of the explosions have limits. Fire a rocket launcher into the side of the building, do as much damage inside as outside while leaving the wall intact. I don't think this was the case in the original, but then smoke wasn't as OP there as it is now.

The soldier accuracy with grenades is pretty awful though. And with this suggestion it would kinda suck not to be able to throw a grenade across a street. Or in game terms, between any two pieces of cover. Consider that enemies (and NPC troops) can already shoot far beyond a soldier's incredibly limited visual range, and I don't think that grenades are terribly imbalanced. They also don't even scratch most terrain. Also a bit bitter that my sniper rifle can barely shoot down one block. First terror mission didn't go well ;p

Oh, and I think I mentioned elsewhere, smoke grenades seem to be the bestest weapon ever at the moment. I don't even have to go into scouts anymore, just detonate a few smokes at the edge and wait. Oh, not really balance related, but healing... I have seen quite a few times that my soldiers who are wounded but can go on missions can be healed up to full with a quick medkit burst. Did this one one of those one turn empty scout missions. Not sure why the troops couldn't avail themselves of that at the base if they aren't actually "damaged" or whatever you might call the heal-able grayed out portion of the health bar.

Ah, just saw crush's post in the community involvement post, suggested some of this a few days ago over there!

Just browsing before I sleep and... this. Even if I had to have the soldier use it as a 2H weapon, it would be amazing.

That, sir, is a bunch of posts. Thanks for noting us.

Oh, maybe add the role to the top down view when arranging the troops on the landing craft too. Number in the upper left, Role in the upper right or something.

While I could rename all my soldiers (Carries Rockets etc), it would be nice to have the "Role" designation that I had given each soldier listed next to their name in the list at the bottom of the screen. Would make it a lot faster making sure I had 3 rifle, 3 sniper and 2 rocket launchers buttoned up and ready to go. Very small change, but any chance we can get the wording on the options when you right click on the red Role button changed? "Change Role" fine. maybe "Choose New Role" "Change Default Loadout" to "Set Current Gear to Role Default" "Equip Default Loadout" probably fine Or something along those lines.

If those two, then perfect.

The aura seems to already partially be in place. Which unfortunately works a little too well since you can then see aliens on the other side of the transparent wall (transparent to them, AND to you!)

If there were rum in the medkits I'd steal them allllll

Yep, given the way I toss around smoke grenades I usually have a good collection of captured aliens I can research without even looking at stun weapons.

Hugs and hugs and hugs. Although tbqh smoke grenades are pretty OP at the moment. Since you can... ya know, empty a scout by pouring smoke through the walls. All in good fun since AoE stuff doesn't seem to check for walls yet.

Ah, so that's why my troops are like a Tyrannosaurus Rex when they try to throw a grenade over a wall. I miss tactical flexibility

Since starting a new game today I haven't had any of the problems I had yesterday with the graphics. Either some error starts propagating (not the type where you can just alt tab and fix the graphic) or the second 17.91 patch fixed it for me.

Seems like it might be related to a corrupted game. In this same game I cannot save and then immediately reload that game. I cannot exit to the main menu. Both cause CTD. The only way to recruit new soldiers is to start a new game then load my old game out of it.

Hmm, same here, I had loaded this game several times. And I just had the aliens shoot through their ship and blow up their own engine from outside. So apparently doors and things like the power source stay, but the UFO itself doesn't load. When you get to the finish screen, check your score... no points for ufo secured. The game really doesn't think there is a UFO there anymore.

Ah, good, but my concern was more that the whole burst would have to "miss" if the alien "dodged" by dropping prone. Or maybe just no dodge chance for bursts. Anyway, probably not worth spending too much time on since it would be a major mechanic change.

An animation intensive solution might be a "dodge" mechanic. Been playing Tera for a bit, and they have a two roll system for determining crits (Something like DnD actually, come to think of it). First do you crit, then do they resist the crit. Rather than deal with bullets possibly passing through the alien (depending on how stopping chance and bullet trajectories work), introduce a second "dodge" roll where the shot beats the stopping chance, but the alien drops prone for a second, or some other animation. Not sure how the game handles shooting over a kneeling person without the bullets chancing to pass through them, but if something like that could be enacted for all the aliens, no worries. Otherwise the drop prone thing might allow for tightening up the shots without making hitting the aliens too easy. Only problem is this might make burst fire less useful unless suppression was guaranteed if they dodge.

Bump, also got this. Desura, updated to 17.91 a second time. Process using between 1 and 2% cpu, but memory usage is constant. Occurred in a walled in Fort type map. Was able to reload at the start and avoid whatever caused the problem by moving my troops in a different manner.

Yep, same as my post, at least you can shoot the haystack with a regular gun. Don't ask how that works.

Oh, and aliens are shooting through the walls of their space ships, buildings, and other impassible terrain. Not sure if that is business as usual.

Been a while, figured I'd check and see how things were going. Landing spots for the chopper still need some work. #2 Want to second the post about getting soldiers back up. Had one end a turn in smoke, soldier down, gone for combat. Shows up as both a corpse and a live body, but I can't pick up the body to move it out of the smoke/harms way. I'm pretty sure getting soldiers back on their feet was one of the basic options for medkits in the original. Been a while though. #3. Condor? For a fighter plane? Ouch... May as well call it Albatross or "Fatso" Big, ugly, eats dead things.

It's ok, you can escape from the faberge egg-grenades with a quick time event.