Hold reapers back for ship defense

[goduranus]

Not sure if there are a lore reasons for not doing this, but if the aliens are smart, they should withhold some reapers to defend their ship, seeing how confined space full of smoke cover is the best place for short ranged melee units.

[thothkins]

I'd like to think that the Reapers want to get out there and spread terror, rather than being holed up in a stuffy UFO. Please?

[lightgemini]

mmmmh, I dont think you really want to do that. It could be Hadleys Hope all over again, and unless you have a xenonaut called Ripley you will be screwed.

You can try yourself. Open "ufo contents" folder, and edit the ships you want changing the reapers entry into "defense". They should hulk inside the ufo then.

[thothkins]

zzz had an Aliens Mod. I wonder what it would be like to put 50 of them in a UFO and see how things go

[Name]

zzz had an Aliens Mod. I wonder what it would be like to put 50 of them in a UFO and see how things go

Explosives lots of explosives in an enclosed contianed ufo

[Mytheos]

I would have as many of them out and about as possible, as their purpose is to infect and reproduce.

And while close range like that would seem better for them, they are supposed to have crazy TUs so closing the gap outside of a UFO shouldnt be a hard thing to do.

I remember in XCOM tho they were slightly buggy, they'd charge right at you while you kept repeating a profanity of choice, only to find them get close, and then change their minds and run away enough distance that had they not, would have killed one of your soldiers and started a zombie outbreak.

[StellarRat]

Hmm...I don't know. Sharing close quarters with a Reaper would make me nervous even if it was supposed to be on my side...

[thothkins]

Some sort of behavioural conditioning, in lieu of a Sebillian being found with a remote control device? Otherwise, I'd land, open the Reaper cages and take off rather quickly, leaving them to get on with it.

[GizmoGomez]

I'd say reapers should just hunt down enemies to infect; they're animalistic, not intelligent. They couldn't care less about the UFO, I'd imagine. They just want to inflict terror by breeding.

[Gauddlike]

On a terror mission they should be out and about doing the terror thing.

If you shot down a UFO with them on board then it might be nice for some of them to stay inside in the comforting darkness, in the day time at least.

They mostly come at night so venturing out when they are less likely to be spotted and more likely to be a threat.