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If you don't have two or four Heavy Lasers, better run
I'm remember the early game it was a hire and fire towards girls strong enough to carry a hammer. Then rush and gang upon one Merc at the time. The RPGs were crucial to deal with their tanks. At the beginning there was not enough heavy laser ammo available for a sustained campaign. It is not without saying the WIA and KIAs numbers were high.
Now Voodoo, Electro-whip and Heavy plasma dominate the game.
I am not deep enough into the game for those, I am scratching them though. Ill try the lazers tactic I have 9 heavies. But their tanks are immune to RPGs sort of.
Yeah having a modified globe would be great, I agree. Any volunteers to do it?
About the "augmented" pistol ammo: yeah no extra damage there. Bootypedia can't be wrong on that since the number is taken directly from weapon stats (and thank God for that). Bigger damage would be contradictory with what the Pedia says on the PS ammo (good for high-velocity piercing ammo because the projectile is tighter, but not much effect on low-velocity 'bludgeoning' ammo since it isn't really more dense/plastic).
Yeah, the extended version is surely a great for even more detailed weapon stats.
One other suggestion
The changed borders and countries on the globe are really good to distinguish the mod from vanilla. I think some kind of terrain change on the globe would be also good. A lot can happen in 600 years alien occupation: maybe something like
- nuclear winter (larger areas of ice, larger continents)
- global warming (more desert areas, smaller continents)
- large wastes in some areas (more desrt, steppe)
- massive vulcanism (additional mountains or islands)
I think the melee balance is amazing.
Message of the day!
Open X Com Final Mod Pack | 29 | Terror Averted Pt 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKCqV12Sg1o
We finish up the terror site and try and figure out what to do next.
Not true. Both in Predator and Terminator 2 real miniguns were used, so there you have visual evidence it is possible and the recoil isn't as violent as you say. What you won't see is a hidden power cable, running to a 50 kgs battery providing electricity for the gun. However, with 2015 advanced batteries, you could probably bring down the weight of the power source to about 10 kgs or even less, making it more or less portable... however, miniguns aren't used by infantry since they're useless in that role - even if someone could carry and fire it, there is little practical reason to do so. The only viable use for them is to sweep a landing zone and force enemies into cover, that's why they're mounted on US transport helicopters.
Oh yeah and making them lighter would make the recoil stronger, not weaker.
Let's say I don't want to lose my time (AND clutter the manufacture lists) for the odd chance that someone wants to waste workshop time & produce useless ammunition that can be bought quite cheaply anyway
Why would you manufacture buyable ammo?
And yeah there are loose plans for such a weapon, but we needs a Terminator armor first...
The strength requirement is so you can't have minigun totting troopers. Not until a months or two into the campaign, where fighting alien and sniffing plasma turns your scared newbies into competent shock troopers. It makes perfect sense.
Heya all. Once again, more questions from me. I downloaded the latest nightly, since I was still running off of base 1.0 and it occured to me I have no idea if this would require me to restart campaigns in progress or can I simply resume my war?
Version 1.2 is online.
- All craft cost money now (because maintenance).
- Fixed the string with Stormtrooper Armour Repair.
- Scout Drone's Reactions brought up to 90, because it's so small and cute and inconspicuous, as well as made the smoke effect bigger.
- Enhanced Miniguns and Multi-Launcher.
- New icons for the Skymarshall.
I especially encourage you to give the miniguns a second chance.
Nah if you wreck it, the only thing of value left is a damaged grav unit (which IS recovered, just check your stores). There are two ways of getting a Pedia entry on them, the non-obvious one is Academy Engineer.
If it was possible, you would have it from day one
