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I believe they may be actually smart enough to have some ammo and grenades on board of their transport True, they don't behave the same way in missions, so maybe its just good headquarters officer doing his job.

As I understand it, each UFO is given certain mission upon spawning on the planet. Some are ordered to scout, some attack your base, others build alien bases, do bombing missions and one of them is terror mission. I guess with capture of alien base, you get the ability to read those orders, I captured one but the research is not finished yet so I can't tell you for certain. So you have to do what I did - make a save when new UFO wave arrives, then let them do their thing (unless they are attacking your base, its fairly obvious). You can usually understand what they are doing. If you flew your fighters over each location UFO landed and there is no alien base, then it's not creating base, but maybe doing research. Remember UFOs you want to leave alone, reload, shoot the rest. Not sure about iron man option though, I guess you can't use same tactic there.

Your problem with UFOs shooting down ships may have a solution, depends on the position of your bases. When you see the UFO warnings, launch your aircraft and patrol the area - I hope your fighters can reach it. If they are this agressive, they are most likely bomber + 2 fighter escorts, not an easy combo to shoot down. Of course, shooting UFOs over water means no extra funds from ground missions. Also, try to position your bases so that one base covers more regions - my first base is near Athens (Greece), covering Europe, Africa, Middle East and part of Soviet Union. Second base is in North America, between Chicago and Seatle. Third base South America, between La Paz and Asuncion. Those two bases cover most America, if not by radar then certainly by fighter coverage. And my final base is on the biggest island in Indochina, north east of Jakarta - that one takes care of all Indochina and Australia. So far, I had only one terror mission, in the north part of Soviet Union, where an UFO arrived outside radar coverage and gave no warning before the mission popped up. My biggest problem was to find out which UFOs are going to start alien bases so I had something to target, thats how effective my fighter/ radar coverage was. In the end, I had to leave all mid-sized UFOs which were not attacking just fly freely over the map, landing whereever they wished, then flying over the locations with fighters. Tip: it was landing craft with two fighter escorts. I thanked them for new tech afterwards.

I have been waiting very long time to upgrade laser weapons to MAG. After several months, I was so fed up with lasers I equiped everyone with plasma anyway. Still waiting for MAGs and enemies are more and more resilient. So: upgrade as soon as you can, it will be worth it.

I have more funds than I can reasonably use - over 1,5M at the end of the month *after* equipping all soldiers with plasma and buzzard armor, two shrikes and I just started on replacing condors and foxtrots with marauders. It would be better from my perspective if I could research crypto lab another way, landing craft for example. Any way how can I recognize behavior of construction UFOs?

What I need to do to get some alien bases? As I read the research tree, there are some very interesting research available from them. BTW, just few minutes after I finished this thread, cruisers came to punish me for asking. Just when I was considering firing my 60 scientists On the other hand, maybe my scientists knew and persuaded aliens to step up their efforts. You never know...

I have made good progress in Xenonauts, up until very recently doing every ground mission possible and shot down all UFOs that arrived - I have four bases around the globe with great radar coverage plus I can send strike forces to reported UFO activities. I have researched everything up to marauder, shrike, all plasma weapons except battle rifle (as no enemies have it), etc. My researchers have nothing to do, I am shooting down fresh UFO waves every three days or so, but no progress. All I see is scout, corvette, landing craft, thrown in with few bombers and fighters / heavy fighters. As for aliens, I met Ceasans, Sebillians, Androns, Reapers, Light Drones and Harridans. Again, this is going for months with no new enemy type appearing. Also, no enemy bases, no terror missions (I don't even know if they are in game, UFOs never had time to start them). Reputation with all countries is very high. So, am I doing something wrong? Maybe let some UFOs to perform their tasks, or whatever? I can't find Alien Leader to progress more in main research, nor can I find battle rifle to develop MAG weapons and no cruisers / carriers on radar. BTW: normal difficulty, end of January 1980.

I have bought this on Steam during early release, but my other PC can't be connected to internet at all. Can we please get a version available for buyers, that can be played offline? Is it possible?

I can provide save, this bug is repeatable. My three foxtrots with fusion torpedoes against carrier and 1 fighter escort can't be autoresolved, always result in CTD. Edit: even when I manualy win the battle I always get CTD. It may be important for debugging purposes, this is the *second* attack on the carrier, the first one took down two fighters and my foxtrots escaped. Seems like carrier launched another fighter after that battle.

Well, maybe I am doing something wrong, but I really needed grenades at lot at the beginning. Weak weapons, horrible aim, etc. Rocket launchers help a lot, but they are not omnipotent. Most soldiers are able to get closer and throw some grenades even over things that would make it impossible for your gunners to hit their targets. And stun gas grenades are very important, especially when you need some new research. Not knowing if they will render your target uncouscious or not is a problem. Later on, your weapons can actually shoot, hit and even destroy the environment, so grenade usefulness goes down a notch or two, but they still remain your best bet to incapacitate enemies. Rocket-delivered stun gas is too weak and my soldiers refuse to go hand to claw combat with stun batons.

Yes, I was looking for that one too, but I found it almost by accident. Should have realized send interceptors will be similar. All in all, this topic is useless, I would still like to have some use for RMB, but there is no missing missing send interceptors button.

Confirmed. Thrown stun gas grenades are gone after reload, I expect it to be the same for all grenades that does not explode immediately. I sincerely hope that the idea of grenades exploding at the end of turn will be dropped completely.

Yep, perfectly. You are right that it makes flashbangs more distinct. But the same effect would be achieved by setting explosive grenade's suppresion to 0. At least in the beginning, before your soldiers can hit an enemy and get their hands on weapons that can do some damage, grenades are much more important then later on. They are also main way to capture aliens, something you do ASAP. Therefore this change increases difficulty mostly in early game. That's the wrong difficulty curve. Grenades received more then enough nerfs lately, please don't damage their tactical value even more.

... no comment. Missed it completely. Which, on the other hand, isn't good. But hey, we are getting new UI anyway so that may be an issue going away very soon.

Kabill, I would really like to understand the second part of what you wrote, can't wrap my head around it somehow. And my issue isn't with only with the inability to see what will happen when I use a grenade, my main problems are that it has now much *less* tactical use. No suppression, no area cleaning when you need it. They are now *only* good for damaging / killing enemies, if you don't care what state they will be left in as long as they are not a threat.