ThatSwoleGuy

1. You have only entered the beginnings of alien weapon research, those alien weapons you found in the field will prove fairly useless to your human troops, as you continue to make breakthroughs in research you will be able to engineer different types of weaponry more suited for your men. 2. This surprised me at first as well, now and again a hit will get through on your shield man (make sure to face the enemy!) and it is because of this that you should equip him with some armor as soon as you can to keep him alive longer. 3. You're muffing something up here and if you're not understanding the manual fights well you should auto resolve, usually 2 condors can take down the heavier scout without losing hp in auto resolve. 4. Verifying your game cache should work here, I had the same thing happen my self. If you have any map packs installed be sure you don't have any weird duplicates. 5. This can vary greatly depending on the enemy you are facing and the weapons you are using, in general you want to outnumber aliens whenever possible in firefights and be sure you're giving your men good chances to hit and not trying to long range snipe with shotties. Hope I helped!

I appreciate the replies gentlemen but 'tis lost in the great abyss. I even tried recovery software. Ah well, all the renditions of my close friends and family had died so I suppose it wasn't a terrible time to restart.

Hello everyone I just accidentally deleted a save and I was wondering if there was any way to recover it? I am using Steam. I lost about 15 hours of gameplay.

It should be noted that I'm playing on the standard stable 18v and I am sending planes to let loose their rockets and run.

I don't have a tablet, is it possible to do this by mouse and keyboard?

I see no reason why it wouldn't have a large bay area just after the doors, good for sending out mass troops or vehicles.

Well I think it's crap that you can only send 3 planes to an engagement, I have no problem hit and running all the way home but it would be cool if they buffed the alien strength a TAD more and then allowed you to take maybe 8 planes. Micromanaging is doable with the pause as well.

I would assume their hair is short enough to not be seen beyond their helmet, military cut and all. I really wouldn't mind at all if they don't create the sprites for the reasons you and the others have stated but I think it would be a shame if the code for it wasn't created at all and modders couldn't do it.

Well they could be infinite in number easily I would think no? Either way some dev support on this would be worthwhile imo.

I'll be home soon from work and I'd love to take a crack at your new maps, two questions however if you don't mind. How will I install the map packs? Are they save game compatible? Thanks in advance!

That sounds like a good workaround for the hard code.

The last thing you said about an air difficulty toggle wouldn't be half bad and I can't imagine it would take long to do. So far I've made it to the stage where you start seeing fighters on a few different occasions (surrendering so that I could use different strategy) and I've taken only 1 down in all honesty. I will for sure report back in a bit when my save gathers some age (at work now). I have been playing on Ironman-2nd hardest difficulty as well and I've only had one plane loss to combat thus far.

Perhaps the difficulty is a bit much for you then? I'm not attempting to get a rise out of you if that's what it seems but I find the air combat to be pretty well designed. If you're running 3 condors and not using hit and run tactics then you can expect to not do so well. The tech progression has served me quite well as I've played, seems to me just as you feel the aliens are starting to melt you, you get something that allows you to slowly push on for tactical victories. Edit: To respond to your edit I'm not sure the air combat is supposed to be as fun as ground combat, it seems to be more of a simulator, if they wanted to somehow change it to real-time or update the tactical features I'd be fine with that but as of now it's definitely balanced imo. Sometimes you just shouldn't engage.

By the way if you right click while commanding your units to fire you can change the type of shot they will take to a more aimed one. Thus far the accuracy seems spot on! I'm loving the amount that my troops miss as well as hit.

Pretty much this, I play on ironman my self and while I've lost aircraft I've won air engagements as well, now to be honest I've only had several playthroughs of the early game so far and overall I've not had the game long. My intent is to make sure no one causes knee-jerk nerfs to things that are balanced as intended. All this to say again, I think it's the intent that the alien aircraft dominate your own.