UFO: Aftermath

[BeBMan]

Woohoo, finished the mission in that Russian base

I had five guys in heavy armour, with gatling guns and lots of ammo (they could hardly walk) plus two in bio armour as "runners", also with lots of medi-packs. The heavy guys cleared the area before the base those retis had no chance there. There were ca. 12 - 15 coming out of the entry and they got toasted with some well aimed bursts one after another .

Beyond the wall the rest of them was sitting. I "created" a new entry via grenades, then moved the heavy guys in carefully to kill those bastards. Inside the base I set up an ambush point and killed some more of them, then started to run with the light guys. I brought back the documents without losing a single soldier -- that was a cool

[Raion]

What difficulty level was it for the Russian base?

I am still on easy level, but getting close there.
Have not seen any gatling guns yet!

Got those SuperStrikers though!
Have not used them yet!
Just got my first CarCrab, whatever it is!

[sabrewolf]

i havn't had chance to play recently, but i am impressed by the length of this thread.
my next best thread (i forgot that one) had 194 posts and after that the best one was around 35. this one here is close to 350... and counting

thanks guys

i also like your strategies. it's a great sign for a game if you can solve it in so many different ways. running, granading, sniping, gatling, etc.

after a very doubting start (i couldn't imagine a start and stop - realtime and turnbased game mixed) i really got fond of this style. and since the 1.2 patch, nearly all the major negative points have been removed.

now if only there were an editor for weapons (that 1.2GB file is just too large to tweak), i'd love it even more

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Raion
What difficulty level was it for the Russian base?

Good question. I simply started a game without checking this - what is the standard difficulty then? Normal or Heavy?

Oh and IMO heavy armour and weapons (such as gatling guns) make only sense IMO when your guys are advaced enough to use them quickly. I had level 14 -16 soldiers on that mission, it took them ca. 2 seconds to aim and fire after spotting the enemy. Soldiers on lower levels would need longer, whichmakes them easier targets. It is also crucial to take out the enemies with heavy weapons asap, since those soldiers in heavy armor are not fast enough to go out of the impact area of eg. Alien missiles.

[Skanky Burns]

I think the default is hard. I also think the 1.2 upgrade allows you to see somewhere what difficulty level your are playing on.

In other news, I finally found this game in the shops, only 70 $au. Once my replacement credit card arrives, I will be able to get me a copy.

[Raion]

I have not been in a UFO yet. Just outside.
Just thought about that.
Those missions got delegated away, while I was busy with other missions.

Started a game on medium. One starts with a game name called a profile then sets the difficulty and starting location.
Then one can save the game when starting in that profile.
Well, if playing a game, one can start where one left off, just by hitting the 'play' button on the system screen.

Some players want to mod it, and the voices I think I will adjust some more to make it more fluid. Especially after everyone shoots, and the target is down.

Thought you had the game, Skanky already??

Server is busy, so I shortened this response, after typing it again.

[Raion]

Well, medium level did not go good. Think I will start a game on easy in another location, see how that plays.
U.S. start might be the easiest place to start. Reloaded twice in that medium game, must be dreaming here late at night or got use to playing different on easy. Sure is not the same! Maybe I will start over on medium.
Well!
I was just getting into expansion, and zap or more like poof, all gone. What was I thinking?
Squad should have ran, very fastly away!

[Main_Brain]

I disagree that you need Heroic Strength guys for the Armors, they will be slow anyway.
I prefer to use 1-2 Scouts in Bio to reveal the enemies.
The Gat's Range is usually enough to hit huge Parts of the Map.


Skanky ='evaluation Copy' ;=)

[Raion]

Right now I wish I had a plasma gun to get rid of the old hot water heater, so I could move a new one in easier. Something that would disingrate it quickly, and be easier to remove.

Started a couple of new games, one on easy in Europe which is way different as to building~~ apartment buildings and different streets, than main street here in the U.S. Not as much room for the camera to move around with, so a top down view is usually needed~~ as the buildings take up almost the entire streets, and less streets and apartment buildings.
Maybe I should start one in Asia to see how the scenary is different there.

All I know, that in the forests, some seem to be heavy also in the scenary with trees~~ well branches, so I trying to move the branches out of my face and out of my way. Its a jungle out there.
Scrounding around for the pieces in the game, but first, I guess I better get some other work done, so I can just sit and play out the game more this Winter when the cold weather hits harder.

Ah~ugh!

Ugh hits world!

http://www.webprimitives.com/ughhitworld.gif

[Grumbold]

Back from holiday (why do we always go somewhere miles away from a PC when I'm in the middle of a really cool game?) and I finally managed to do the Russian base without being wiped out. Hurrah!

Dumb question time - why are there some gun I can't equip? Nobody wants to carry a collapsible railgun or double machinegun even if I strip them down to their underwear.

Second question, which itself may be spoilerish:

Spoiler:

Having rescued the two old grays, do I just ignore them for now or should I use them for missions?

[sabrewolf]

grumbold:
1) yeah, that's the wierd stuff: you can only take the big guns with the heavy armors. you probably tried it with the bio-suits, didn't you

2)

Spoiler:

in my first game they were a small help because my men weren't trained very well. in the second game they couldn't compare.

but i don't know how good their armor is.

[Grumbold]

Heavy armor? Aaah. I'm in a collection of sun and sky suits at the moment with about 10 days to go on my first suit of Bio. Looks like I'll have to concentrate on enhanced heavy armour next, assuming my bases don't get swallowed under Biomass. At the moment I'm beginning to worry that the alien pondweed is going to beat me.

[sabrewolf]

next time you see a planter hovering around near/over the biomass, send sevaral waves of fighters to do the job. intercept, then click on the UFO again and intercept again, etc.
you can also save+reload if you prefer

get in that UFO, research & develop 2-3 things and biomass won't be a problem anymore...

[Grumbold]

Tried that once and having had a hard battle around the wreck the spaceship turned out to have at least 4 aliens inside with rocket launchers. It was splattered commando stew each time. Hence my longing for heavy weapons and better armour

[sabrewolf]

well, a rocket will kill you even with best armour. and heavy weapons won't stop you from dieing

damn, those aliens are crazy... they'll fire their launchers even if you're right next to them! (suicide bombers?)