Oh no! The overspawn is attacking!

[Snikers]

Personally - I don't deal with it, I just sit back and watch as the boy takes out something

halfway across the city. When a building comes down tile by tile I cheer, and when the

building defences finally end his parade I'm disappointed.

[NKF]

Oddly enough, leaving overspawns alone is quite good for your public relations with some of the organisations in the city. They don't get angry at you for not dealing with it. In fact, they start believing in your cause a heck of a lot more.

 

It's also an opportunity to regain allies who refuse to help you as long as you oppose their alien friends. They'll still have that stance and will not receive any bribes, but they will hate the aliens' guts. Quite a paradox, but still... And if the overspawn stomps a few sirius buildings flat, you're going to have some very confused allies for the next few weeks.

 

The only time I would recommend killing them yourself is when they just so happen to wander over to one of your facilities and start stomping it flat by accident. They don't particularly want to attack your base, but coincidences can pile up.

 

- NKF

[Asmodai]

I beat the game before ever having to deal with them. I would have liked to see one, and maybe this next time around I'll get to them. I would think those giant Retribution missles with stasis bombs would screw them over.

[Ki-tat Chung]

do statsis bombs actually freeze the overspawn? it seems that they do a little dammage aswell. i tried it on a cultist bike (can't remember if it was turbo or hover) and it blew up. what do you say?

[The Veteran]

Anything that hits a bike will invariably destroy it... And the best way to destroy an overspawn is not to do anything... That I would definitely agree with. Eventually a collapsing building will pt an end to it's ugly parade anyway so who cares if few houses get smashed? There's a million people in Mega Primus anyway. Who's going to miss a few hundred?

[NKF]

Whatever it was that destroyed that bike, it wasn't the stasis bombs. They don't deal any damage at all. They'll just stun it for a very brief second or so.

 

- NKF

 

Edit: Although I did notice one thing. You can fire them at a building and, while not damaging it, the security forces will pop out. Hmm. Interesting.

[Crazy Photon]

Who's going to miss a few hundred?

What if those few hundred are XTC members, like Tammy, You, Me ...

 

Very Strange the Stasis bomb thing though... are you sure it was that or maybe it caused damage to the road (just thinking a crazy idea)

[Psy Guy]

It seems as though everyone just let the overspawn run. I normally just kill the thing (very easy to do) because its an alien and im x-com. Hmm next time i see a overspawn ill just kick back and watch the fireworks. (If they made to overspawn act like a big megaspawn then things would be diffrent. 1 heavy disruptor beam and 1 inverson bomb launcher. That seems like the equivalent to a megaspawn). Now that i think of it, they are kind of cool to watch as they walk aimlessly into buildings. Kind of like a drunk godzilla

 

-PSY GUY-

(Side note: i heard from some place that there is this mission the aliens do called the apocalypse mission in which they try to level the city with everything they have. I've never seen this and i was wondering if anyone has)

[Crazy Photon]

Yes, I've seen them throw like almost 10 ships, most of them bombers, go run amok the city trying to destroy everything they see.... luckily I fend them off with some aid... (the ships of the organizations being attacked)

[The Demi-Godly One]

I've seen the aliens try to level the city, it makes you able to lose a lot of points.

[Kiryu-Kai]

i still yet have to see a overspawn i have competed this game like 10 times at superhuman but no sign of one...

 

think its because i don't give those motherships a chance to deploy the alien...

[Asmodai]

Maybe overspawns come if you take too long to beat the game.

[Ki-tat Chung]

i really really want to see an overspawn, but all the motherships do are beam down aliens and micronoid rain and even then nothing happens to the orgs.

[Disciple of Yevon]

That apocalypse mission has been done twice to me. I lost two of my four bases. And...I've only encountered Micronoids once. Do you have to do the alien building missions to find more?

[NKF]

Micronoids are quite a rare alien to encounter. I know of two places where you can definitely find some.

 

The first alien building will always have some micronoids sloshing about, and the green alien bomber (the one that eats hoverbilkes for breakfast) also has some micronoids supporting the usual anthropod and skeletoid crew.

 

- NKF