Game walkthrough-ed. Some notes.

[a_beorning]

Today I finished a game. Except, of course, final mission.

It was tons of save/loads to workaround CTD situations, inevitable at this stage of development.

And still, game is walkthrough-able, interesting and more or less old-good-UFO-like.

I researched all available researches.

Alas, some branches were closed.

I couldn't dissect and/or interrogate reapers - no matter how many I killed or stunned, game didn't send them to lab.

I had not used laser weapons: at the moment I had spare workshop and funds to build some, I already had researched plasma.

Only planes I used were F17, Chinook, MiG an Corsair - more advanced planes were un-available, due to research tree.

Moreover, when I researched EndMission, process of rearmament from Fs to Corsairs was still in progress.

Intercepted UFOs and captured crashsites:

It's OK with exploding fighters, bombers, interceptors.

But StrikeCruiser? Did it supposed to self-destruct too, or it was a bug, or just shortage of luck? I seen (and kill) only 3 of them.

Carriers, alas, were unavailable to capture due to a CTD bug.

Battleship I seen only once, and it escaped with 73% damage. Many times I re-loaded that day, but it didn't return.

Destroiers I didn't see at all.

Strange things were in ground combat. Two soldiers hav un-obscured view of an alien - Sniper and Rifleman.

Sniper's probability to hit is shown as 95%, Rifleman's - 50% (digits for example).

Sniper missed 2 of 3, Rifleman hits 3 of 4.

And it wasn't just once - it was more a rule than exception.

Something in probability calculation is wrong...

There are many other strange things, many of them I reported as a bugs.

But - game is over, and game is good.

Now I hope, in just a day or two it became - or DEVs (God bless them!) will make it - even better.

Next two nights I will sleep more than 5 hours

Edited April 1, 2013 by a_beorning

[thothkins]

My workshop is building a Shrike dropship, so that would seem to be available, at least so far.

I've run a few Cruiser missions to completion so they are available too.

I've completed two Landing Ship missions as well. I've not been able to complete a Base Defence (CTDs) or an Alien Base (a CTD and then no base as I reloaded to an earlier point and it didn't reappear)

The accuracy balances have still to be adjusted I believe? In practice I notice improved chances when the sniper makes no movement before firing. Even more so further up the tech tree. Movement really seems to reduce chances.

[svidangel]

Nice work struggling through all the CTDs! I wasn't able to push through.

Notice the same thing with snipers getting no where near the listed % when it gets high. Almost like it starts wrapping around or something. I get actual hits more often around 70 to 80% accuracy

[Chris]

a_beorning - I'm impressed you managed to complete it, well done! Glad you like it. It should get a lot better and more stable in beta. Thanks for reporting all the bugs too.

For the UFOs - yes, strike cruisers are upgrades on bombers so they always explode when destroyed. Destroyers and now Dreadnoughts have been removed from the game (more details when I release the beta), but Battleships will be a lot more common.

And yeah, the Reaper and accuracy problems are both bugs that hopefully should be fixed in the next build.