Nick7532

The latest experimental. I do not have the save file anymore.

I was playing a mission and moved my heavy into a building. He doesn't have enough TU to look all the way around, so there is a black spot behind him. All of a sudden, a shot comes from across the map, goes through that black spot and kills him. Turns out that black spot WAS A WALL. This is a huge oversight in the aliens shooting algorithm, also, on a related note, are aliens supposed to be able to shoot at you long before you can see them?

So, no one cares about broken local forces I guess?

While playing some missions I have noticed three things. First, local forces don't always spawn with a gun. I found this out because I kill middle east local forces for their AKs. Two, if they have a gun, they cannot move or reaction fire, once again found this out by hunting locals for AKs. Three, AK has been super nerfed to the point where it is useless and may actually be causing problem two. I have noticed, through extensive use, that the AKs effective range was halved with this experimental version and you also took away the 30 round mags >:C But I think the local forces may be refusing to fire because the AK, even with an aimed shot, becomes so inaccurate so fast that I had to have soldiers with 70 aim just to use it without hitting the guy standing behind them.

I read somewhere that this is being removed for both player and aliens, they plan on re-working LOS eventually to be along the lines of that if a unit is to fire on a target it has to be within it's 18 tile and view angle in order to shoot at it, otherwise they cannot fire at it.

Meanwhile on steam, still waiting for the update to go through

I found what the problem is, loading at any point during a base mission seems to cause some assets to go missing and makes the mission unplayable.

It seems to have just been an isolated problem, probably save corruption, because I started a new one and just butchered the residents of a Caesan base. BTW, as a side note, how do I post a save?

I deleted that one a while ago because I came across a game breaking issue with that save that for some reason made me unable to win alien base missions other than blowing them to tiny little pieces that was only happening on said save

No, I don't care about that. I mean, even after bringing one back it didn't show up in the games list of weapons when equipping soldiers.

After clearing the alien base the game didn't send me to the results screen so I looked around to check for an alien that my death squad missed somehow but there was nothing. I reloaded back to the beginning of the mission and replayed it but the same thing happened. There were, however, more aliens this time around.

I have always found riot shields to be completely worthless. Whenever I use them aliens seem to shoot right through them and hit the guy in the back

So, I brought home an AK-47 that I "procured" from the local forces in the middle east and I set it to the default weapon of my assaults. It isn't listed in any menu but can still be equipped if you hit the button to equip the default equipment.

ooooh, sounds shiny...

Ooh, I just noticed something cool. So, the next mission I did after this one was done immediately before Charlie even came back to base and everyone still have the same ammo and equipment from the previous engagement. I just love little things like that so much