Funny Moments on the way to beta...

Having only played the alpha a very short while, I was wondering what funny or aah-ha type moments people have come across....Maybe i was tired the last play through, but I got a real chuckle when a panicky citizen ran past the soldier that "accidently" shot him and into my transport vehicle and the other citizen who rain into the fire (may he rest in peace)...

I once had my soldier ressurected. I had to shotgun wielding guys standing next to each other. One guy was killed by plasma , and the alien shot at the second guy. The second shot hit the dead guy and he jumped back into action. Healthy, pepped and ready to go. G.A. Romero would be proud.

Could have more, but i stopped playing to avoid spoiling it for myself.

Wait...

who rain into the fire

HE CAN CONTROL NATURE!? If he can cause rain at will maybe he can also command lightning, recruit and research him immediatly!

Earlier today I was hunting down the last remaining alien of the mission. I found him standing at the front door to their UFO. Decided to try a long range shot with my sniper, ended up missing and hitting the wall next to the door which in turn blew up half of the UFO killing the alien.

And then there was this brave little fellow, who ran from one end of the street to my position and just stopped there without shooting or anything.

ran, rain... all in an extra I... I was playing the newest version (I was happy to be able to get my Hunter out of the ship) and right before it booted my out (I will save in the future...don't forget) I found the last alien in the ship and he appeared to be hiding in a closet (had to shoot at random to find him...)

I believe that the aliens were monitoring our TV signals before launching their invasion. Unfortunately for them, they watched a lot of Hong Kong Phooey...

so now you get alien feet sticking out of filing cabinets all the time.

I shall, for now, stop my lurking and post my experience on my 4th crashsite.

There were my two 4-man/woman squads and the Hunter-001 hunting down Sebilians from the crashed scout, a dead policeman leading me in the general direction. The Hunter taking point down on an open street to serve both as mobile gun platform and as cover for the squad tasked to clear that direction. The Hunter gets sight of the first of the reptilian aliens, standing in a doorway, and starts to open up, .50 cal bullets ripping through flesh and taking out the invader without much of a problem. The right squad moved up to support, taking cover behind building corners and crates on both sides of the street, which led up to the UFO.

Sgt. Jane White the DMR of the squad was looking down the street from one of the corners of the buildings on the left side through the scope of her G3A3ZF, trying to find other targets. As the remaining Sebilians had not yet been spotted, the Hunter was moved up to scout ahead with its armored hull. Slowly lumbering up the street another Sebilian was found, peeking out of the doorway of a storage building on the right street side. The targeting sensors of the Hunter locked on and fired on the Sebilian, but a glitch in the software, caused the guns mark to fall short. A return barrage of heated Plasma, burning the armor of the unmanned ground vehicle, but failing to penetrate.

The head of the Sebilian, though, was now showing clearly in the scope of Sgt. White's scope, the rest of the body obscured by the military robot, that flushed it out in the first place. She took careful aim, held her breath and took the shot. Through a freak accident, something happened now, that she did not intend and that showed that 7.62mm NATO bullets are sometimes more powerful, than you can imagine. What caused the accident, could not be reconstructed, maybe the wind did cause the bullet to deviate, maybe it was small specks of dirt in the barrel, no one knows. But lets return to the bullet, it left the barrel as it should, but then it first penetrated the back armor on the right side of the Hunter vehicle, apparently hit the fuel tank, left the weapons carriers armor on the right side and still had enough force to explode the head of the Sebilian.

In the wake of the event one Hunter vehicle was destroyed and unsalvagable due to, what could be called, a friendly fire incident. But as in any case, friendly fire isn't. A later inquiry found no fault in Sgt. White's conduct and absolved her of any responsibility for the destruction of vital mission assets.

While all this was happening, the second squad moved up an alleyway on the other side of the office building, where the first squad was already engaging alien forces. The move through the alley was uneventful, but at the end the crashed scout craft of the invaders was finally visible. Sgt. Kei Sato, the squads DMR, and the SAW guy, which will remain unnamed here, where staying a bit back, covering one of the entrances to the UFO, while Sgt. Barbera Williams and the other rifleman moved up to prepare for a breach. Sgt. Williams was poised on the right side of the door and slowly pushed, what looked like the opening mechanism for this door, which was being met with success. With the sound of equalizing pressure, both halfs of the door smoothly slid into the wall of the craft, while a distinct reptilian stench was coming out. Some smoke shortly obscured the vision of Sgt. Sato, so she was unable to engage the Sebilian that was waiting inside. Because of this, Sgt. Barbera swiftly moved around the corner, gun held up ready to engage any enemy targets. A lonely Sebilian was standing there, just beyond the doorway and before the monstrously hideous alien could react, it was hit by a burst of bullets from the M16 rifle and dropped lifelessly to the floor.

What happened next, was an explosion, likely caused by either the alien suiciding, trying to take one of the humas with him or, because bullets had penetrated some vital piece of equipment in the UFO. Sgt. Williams was lucky however, as her armor protected her mostly from the blast. She'll be in the hospital for a few days to recover from the minor bruises and burns she suffered, but she'll be up again fairly soon, having learned a lesson, too, from all of this. Stay a bit further away, when shooting into an UFO, as otherwise stuff might blow up.

So, there you have it, 7.62mm NATO rounds, with the power to penetrate armor and go on as if nothing happened and explosive aliens/UFOs.

Needless to say, that I'm enjoying the experience.

Thanks for the story...My soldiers have been enjoying short excursions but going on shooting sprees (civilians included)....They love the big bangs of the various explosive tanks...For the alpha, it's fun to have everyone jump out of the ship and fire like crazy (I know not a good strategy, but I am just having fun and not trying to "win" yet....still very effective in killing aliens (and of course the citizens who I am sure where trying to help them...)

Awesome story!

Nitpicking: I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure DMR is the designated Marksman Rifle, and therefore the soldier who uses it is the Designated Marksman (DM)

Yeah, noticed that too, on my way to work, was just to lazy to change the post after coming back home or at any later point in time.

my funnyest moment was (*forget what build) i deployed to a scout crash site and had just finished deploying my men around the alien crash site. i though i had cleared the rest of the site but upon inspecting the ship ...nothing. i figured oh great a bug now to find the alien...under the ship,under a rock,under some barrels when finally one of my men spotted the alien i had missed. sgt redshirt 3 was exausted and at the mercy of the alien when it did something unthinkable. on its turn it fired and missed the alien then decided the best place to hide was in the middle of a fire. this surprised sgt redshirt 3 and after hiding behind an explosive barrel he watched the last alien die.

(ps yes i have my favirote teams and my redshirt team is always off the craft first)

(nothing fells better than a redshirt running into an alien craft and using a basooka on a nuclear(unkown) power source and watching it blow)

(*only one thing i dont understand governments actually ask me not to goto terror sites--the citizens would prefer to be nuked) ;P

Hearing the plinking sound of a Security Guard/Policeman firing off his pistol in desperation during Hidden Movement, followed by the sounds of a massive explosion and the death squeals of two Sebillians, and then seeing said Policeman emerge victorious out of the Fog of War.

ha! excellent Buzzles. I had a cop shooting towards the tanks and I had wondered.

HE CAN CONTROL NATURE!? If he can cause rain at will maybe he can also command lightning, recruit and research him immediatly!

had a machine gunner a the 2 floor of a bulid by a window clear sigt of an alien he shoot an killed him self