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Title: WEIRD SECTOPOD STARTING POSITION
Post by: SIMON BAILIE on December 04, 2014, 12:23:34 am
Am I missing sumthing or is it just random placing of the aliens/terror units @ the start of a mission but how on earth did this Sectopod get into this room as there are no 2x2 doors?
Title: Re: WEIRD SECTOPOD STARTING POSITION
Post by: Warboy1982 on December 04, 2014, 01:18:01 am
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=3068.msg35894#msg35894

too lazy to click the link version:
the map maker messed up.
Title: Re: WEIRD SECTOPOD STARTING POSITION
Post by: Hobbes on December 04, 2014, 01:30:41 am
the map maker messed up.

Always blame the map maker! Poor us... that Sectopod clearly squeezed through those doors :'(
Title: Re: WEIRD SECTOPOD STARTING POSITION
Post by: yrizoud on December 04, 2014, 01:44:35 am
They assembled it in the ship, without realizing it wouldn't fit through doors.
Title: Re: WEIRD SECTOPOD STARTING POSITION
Post by: TaxxiDriver on December 04, 2014, 03:42:26 am
It's a trap! Aliens were definitely smart enough to surprise the agents when they were starting to think it's quite safe. Surprise! HAHA!!

... Or maybe they were just dumb and forgot there were more sectopods they could use in the battlefield and left it there...
Title: Re: WEIRD SECTOPOD STARTING POSITION
Post by: HelmetHair on December 04, 2014, 06:49:14 am
Clearly some kind of sick alien practical joke.

The Navigator pages the Leader while the Engineer and a few soldiers assembled the Sectopod. 

Title: Re: WEIRD SECTOPOD STARTING POSITION
Post by: Solarius Scorch on January 27, 2016, 07:54:52 pm
I guess the alien commander wanted the best bodyguard available with him at all times. So like Yrizoud said, they really had to assemble a dedicated Sectopod on the bridge...
Title: Re: WEIRD SECTOPOD STARTING POSITION
Post by: 7Saturn on January 28, 2016, 01:37:16 pm
Reminds me of the vanilla behavior, to stuff Cyberdiscs on level 2 of terror ships, but not in the compartments to the side, but in the middle part. Or the small room in level 2 of the battleship, right next to the door, that leads to the small elevator to level 3, where there were Sectopods and Reapers put in. As a novice, one was wondering, where on earth that last unit was, until discovering it in there...
Title: Re: WEIRD SECTOPOD STARTING POSITION
Post by: psyHoTik on January 29, 2016, 12:59:56 pm
I think Sectopod takes 2x2 only because it wants to appear bigger and more intimidating. If you look at the graphics closely it should be possible to fit it on 2x1 (by moving it 0,5 tile backwards) and move through the door sideway.
Title: Re: WEIRD SECTOPOD STARTING POSITION
Post by: Warboy1982 on January 29, 2016, 01:55:58 pm
what's with all this thread necromancy?