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too right, you know when my X-Com unit has passed through an area cus they do more damage than the aliens!

well, I made a mess of a perfectly normal mission, just because I forgot to stand up. Yes, that's right because I didn't stand up from crouching I managed to mess up an etire mission. I was about to throw a pack of HE into a small UFO (this was just after I started to replace normal grenades with HE :devil: ) I had already flattened the rest of the batlefield, not because there were aliens there, but out of principle, in fact I knew the last alien was in the ufo, but delieberately blue up every other structure first. I primed the HE for 1 turn, to the end of x-coms go, then threw it through the door. I thought it had landed where I wanted it. I end the turn, and just outside the UFO there is a huge explosion, which wipes out half my squad, and they weren't clustured, its just that was how big the explosion was, and when I look in the UFO the alien is still there. After some thought I realise that because I forgot to stand up the HE hit the fence my guy was behind and the HE fell to their feet. Since then, i have always made sure I have a couple turns to run on the timer when using HE

I was playing on UFO the other day, a new game, and doing pretty well. Only lost 1 guy so far, all my guys were pretty hot on the firing range picking off pretty much whatever I pointed them off in one shot. Then second terror mission comes along, I lost an interceptor trying to down the ship, and slightly damaged the other, so I let the ship go, and a bit later it showed up. So I take my Skyranger over to take a look, and upon landing find I landed on a big open green space, and the map was divided up into 4 by a road. 2 warehouses along the bottom, and on the top right is what I think of as a "slum" house, surrounded by rickity looking fencing etc. So I deploy and spread out intending to spread my men along the road and camp out picking off the aliens as they appear. Then one of my guys gets panicked, and I relaise this is a sectoid mission, which I;m not too fussed about. So I'm at the road, moving the last guy into position and all of a sudden he gets shot, not a big thing. I turn my heavy cannon around and take a shot at the cyberdisc that killed him, the shot sails along into the back of the next soldier along, and that set the tone for the entire mission. I lost more of my men to friendly fire than the aliens. Soldiers being shot in the back all over the place, HE and AP shells flying in every direction except the right one, and all the while grenades and cyberdiscs exploding. I went in with 14 men, and left with about 6. I left behind me half the map completly devastated. Nearly all the walls on the two warehouses were blown out and the insides were swirling with smoke and burning nicely. There were several large holes in the house, a bit was burning, and the only thing that wasn't damaged was the big green space because there was nothing to damage! Has to be the worst mission I have played, not for result, but the way I lost my men, and what happened. A real comedy of errors but I enjoyed it, and next time I'm taking more explosives with me

This sounds so good! I'll just have to get a copy when it's done!

very high tech looking, also sounds pretty nasty as well

should be in the off topic section There's a typo ("not" instead of "note") and some of your underlined headings look a bit like they're meant to be links (at least thats what i thought they were meant to be until I fidured out they were headings) whihc may cause confusion (it did for me ) I would go on to say the good things to prove I'm not overly negative, but I'm out of time, so i'll say that later.

yeah, would be useful for people like me who have no tactics What about overlays?

by more detailed grenades I mean that you have to take time to prime them etc, but I can't remember how this is done in Flashpoint so I'll shut up before I embaress my self

what right mouse button funstions and Geoscape overlays??

have you ever played tom clancy's rogue spear? I reckon it'll be cool to try and include some things from that, like the more detailed grenade stuff and doors, and better indoor enviroments. BTW I don't know the first thing about modding so I wouldn't be surprised if this was impossible, but never mind.

I had a tiny base once all it had was a hanger, lift, stores, and living quarters, and a radar. Garrisoning it was 50 rookies with rifles, basically anything left over from my main base that I no longer needed due to better equip. That base was attacked by sectoids, and all the sectoids spawned in the hanger, with some spilling into the other sections, but my 50 rookies spawned everywhere, even in amongst the aliens! So after deliberating whether I could be bothered to do all the shooting or not I decided no. I clicked end turn, and all hell broke loose. First alien shoots at a nearby rookie, about 5 rookies reaction fire back, then next alien shoots and gets reaction fire back and so on. Basically it was 5/6 minutes of the most intense fire fight I have ever seen on UFO. Shame they can throw grenades by reaction fire as well

can you sell live aliens? I imagine a live floater medic would be worth a great deal, but I can't see it on the sell screen.

I had a mission which had 5/6 floaters hanging around the skyranger, luckily I managed to lose only 1/2 men (it was with no armour, a few laser rifles, mostly normal rifles) And I had an incident where on a nighttime sectoid terror mission I threw out a smoke grenade, and a sectoid only 3 squares from the end of the landing ramp reaction fired into the skyranger with a stun bomb, lots of unconcious soldeirs

a fresh game, but in the same save slot

the Floater bit was on a new save game, the crashing for no reason was on a different one.