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Just as I thought. The constant whining about the air combat getting "too difficult" and "overcomplicated" leads to lessening the depth of it and removal of nice features. Well done, people. Keep it up.

I think it is obvious that the question is about the time on the terror site, not on the location of Sgt thothkins.

It has been said that there will be an autoresolve option for the air fights for those that find the air-combat "overcomplicating". I like the way it goes and it should not be a boring repetition of the same tactic all over. For the rest of the people, you can always autoresolve it .

I do not see why assault rifles would have a better chance to hit a moving target than sniper rifles. The only real modifier for a sniper rifle is distance. If the target is closer than a specific distance is very difficult to hit it with a sniper rifle. In all other situations the sniper rifle has a better accuracy. Moving targets are harder to hit for any weapon, still, the sniper rifle has better odds, which increase with the distance(in relation with other weapons, that is), IMO.

Right clicking when the door icon is visible works for me.

Just do not fire all missiles at once, since the UFO will evade the first barrage. Fire one missile and, after the UFO rolls, fire the rest.

It is just a technological and world status reference. Since you are touching on the technological aspect, your suggestion just beats the purpose of the reference.

Another game-related thread at the off-topic section...Interesting.

Hmm...Perhaps we shouldn't be able to avoid night terror missions? It is not like the aliens would wait for you to arrive at first light before they kill everyone and destroy the place.

No, I have not played a base assault, yet. However, this is what smoke grenades are for. Use them to provide cover for your troops in places that there is no cover. And, of course, there are the shields. You use them to protect the advancement in areas with no cover. I think the developers have given us the tools, we only need to use them.

No, he does not, but you have the TUs needed to move him out of cover, shoot and get him back again. In the fireaxis game, they only give you 2 moves, so they had to compensate by taking this detail for spotting, shooting and returning to cover upon them.

The idea is that you only have to do it once for each building, I guess. After that you can tell which is which by just looking at it. EDIT: As a related issue, a description of what a medical center does would be nice.

And it would be a motion scanner. Human movements would be tracked, as well. Not just the aliens'.

Me, too.

Looks like you got it right .

If a plane is damaged, you cannot change weapons until it is repaired. If it was not damaged, it would be a bug.

Apart from the LOS bugs, it sounds pretty much right to me. Did you use any smoke grenades for cover, then flash-bangs to prevent any reaction fire, and, maybe, a couple of grenades/rockets to do splash damage? Having many aliens grouped in one room calls for area effect weapons in my book.

I definitely disagree with that. UFOs should only land when performing a mission.

Not me.

Well, it is said that the game is not balanced, yet, but it would be a shame that such a thread does not contain a "This is X-COM, baby!", line. So, I thought I would provide one. This is X-COM, baby!

Just like the Elder Scroll series. Developers are trying to provide a nice, realistic, soldier skills development scheme and there are those that start abusing it from day 1 . Anyone willing to actually play the game as it is intended to be played? I find it disturbing that the developers are expected to provide measures against abusing the skills development. Heck, if someone enjoys having soldiers do meaningless things during a mission, it is OK. But the same person stating that this is a game defect is absurd . In my opinion, the game should be so hard as to not allow anyone the luxury of doing such stupid things. But, hey, I am sure it is just me!

Perhaps we are supposed to start sending squadrons instead of single aircrafts.

After you load a game it works fine. I think it is the air combat. When you have one and then return to the geosphere you get that problem. I recall receiving the "low fuel" pop up for one of my condors in that air mission.

Expecting to win the game when you lose the air battle? I do not think so. I do not know about you, but I think that losing the air battles should not mean that they have to become easier, it means that we have to become better at fighting them.

You right click at a square in the direction you wish the soldier to rotate.